Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hundreds of students jostled each other in the corridors outside Paine Hall just to catch a glimpse of piano-playing maestro Robinson Professor of the Humanities Robert D. Levin '68 of Literature and Arts B-54: "Chamber Music From Mozart to Ravel...
...promised to reform. But that was not in his nature. "You're out there on the edge," Kesey says, "where it's beyond dangerous to your life--it's dangerous to your soul. And Garcia was on that edge for 30 years. It's like when the King asked Mozart why he drank so much, and Wolfgang said, 'Rock 'n' roll is hot, dry work.' Who are we to argue with such an artist? It's like arguing with Picasso because he was horny...
Callers put on hold while waiting for a Harvard University Information operator will now hear the strains of Mozart, Mahler and a host of other classical music composers wafting through their telephone lines...
...Rosen the three leading figures of the era are Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. But in his wide-ranging study, where influences are as shrewdly detected as innovations, he illuminates the musical sensibilities of a great many composers. For instance, "That music should be completely audible was as obvious to Mozart as it was irrelevant for Bach," Rosen observes. And, "It has taken more than a century to realize that it is not Berlioz's oddity but his normality, his ordinariness, that makes him great...
...also called The Romantic Generation (Music Masters Classics), that contains six pieces--by Chopin, Schumann and Liszt--whose historical importance he discusses as well. One highlight is Rosen's commanding performance of Liszt's terrifyingly difficult tour de force of homage and imagination, Reminiscences de Don Juan, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the text, he isolates from that piece a passage that erupts spectacularly in a cascade of chromatic octaves alternating with single notes. Liszt's dramatic ingenuity, writes Rosen, would "make explicit a Victorian condemnation of Don Juan's morals and amount to an assertion that...