Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard has seen in half a dozen years. In addition he has won respect as a solo clarinetist and chamber musician. Daniel Troob, the excellent continuo-player in Adams's superb production of The Marriage of Figaro, was to team up with him again as the soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. One glance at the back of the program made it abundantly clear that Adams has accomplished a small coup d'etat in gathering so many of the community's best musicians...
...could not help but noitice an element of vulgarity in Adams's treatment of the music. Both the Haydn and the Mozart lacked the classical elegance that is so important in works of that period. In the Milhaud Adams adopted a grinding, spread-kneed approach and a style of rhythmic emphasis that owed more to Motown than nineteen-twenties jazz...
...biggest disappointment of the evening was the Mozart piano concerto. In the Allegro the lower strings dragged terribly. The orchestra was constantly at odds with the soloist, overpowering him dynamically and struggling to arrive at a mutually conducive tempo...
...Mozart A major has always been a student warhorse, and we were all looking forward to this performance by supposedly mature, well-reputed musicians. At last someone would breathe life into it. But Daniel Troob's solo work was worse than amateur: it was unmusical. His percussive left hand rendered the right barely audible, and his playing was uneven, unphrased, overpedalled and sloppy...
...Galamian, home-grown instruction has turned into a near industry. The most famous Oriental string teacher is Japan's Shinichi Suzuki, 70, whose revolutionary start-'em-young technique produced tiny Miss Kasuya-one of a group of Suzuki prodigies now touring the U.S.-and her note-perfect Mozart. Suzuki's Talent Education Institute, founded in 1946, takes in pupils at the age of three, subjects them first to an intensive course in ear training, technique and performance by rote from recordings, and later to such refinements as note reading. While the course is designed only...