Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AWARDED. To WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 73, masterly Polish poet of the prosaic; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The Academy described her as the "Mozart of poetry." Her flowing verses and everyday imagery reveal the grace and depth of simplicity...
...walks, it talks; it vamps, it camps; it does Mozart and Sondheim, Gershwin and Strauss. What more, indeed, could Kate deLima need? Singlehandedly, she's taken over Harvard musical theater; one could hardly imagine a "Marriage of Figaro" or a "Fledermaus" getting off the ground without her. Not to mention a one-woman cabaret act, complete with schmaltz, Catskills-style patter, and a big band...
...teacher of a Burke's Peerage of younger pianists, he originated master classes (and, though his own means were slight, he never accepted a fee). Moreover, it was Liszt, frequently decorated by nobles and heads of state, who broke down the class barriers that had earlier relegated Haydn and Mozart to the status of servants...
...suites. A friend had recommended them, and as I listened I thought that there was little better than this on earth. I have had similar feelings about many of the pieces I was exposed to in Robert Levin's Core course, Literature and Arts B-54: "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel." From Schubert's light Trout Quintet to Beethoven's brooding late string quartets, all nine pieces I was required to know have stayed with me and spurred me to look for other chamber pieces...
...Spectrum Singers perform Mozart's Coronation Mass and Schubert's Stabat Mater and Magnificat at the First Congregational Church, 11 Garden...