Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOZART: FANTASIA AND SONATA IN C MINOR AND SONATA NO. 8 IN A MINOR (Westminster). Daniel Barenboim, the peripatetic Israeli prodigy who, at 24, travels all over the world meeting the insatiable demand for recitals, plays three of the most brilliant, and saddest, of Mozart's works for the piano. The album offers great music well played-which is something to cheer about...
When the curtain rose on Mozart's Don Giovanni at Spoleto, Italy, last week, the traditional 17th century Spanish capes and courtyards were missing. Instead, singers in vaguely funereal costume drifted through bare spaces that seemed to recede into infinities of aquamarine. Massive bands of grey rock jutted around and above them. The eerie landscape was punctuated by spare, brooding pieces of sculpture: a huge, reclining nude in gleaming green; two spiky, dead-white trees; labyrinthine arch forms like vast bleached bones; a series of angular, menacing mummies...
...luncheon attended by 90 of Rodgers' friends and well-wishers, including cast members from many of his 23 shows. Letters and tape-recorded greetings showered in from the likes of Vice President Humphrey and Senator Dirksen, beatifying him as "a genius" and "America's answer to Mozart." Rodgers had just the right lyrics to cover it all. "I'm intimidated and I'm touched," he said, and sat down...
Professor Victor Yellin will teach what should be a delightful course on Early Romantic Opera from Mozart to Meyerbeer. Don't expect a simple music appreciation course, however, because particular attention will be given to the problems of opera composition...
Mahler, born in 1860, was one of the last great Romantics. Because of the way he transformed the symphonic tradition extending from Mozart to Anton Bruckner, he was also, in Steinberg's words, "the father of contemporary music-the forerunner of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern." Yet no composer was ever less interested in the objective development of musical form as such. For Mahler, composing was a highly subjective process of grappling with the deepest, most painful questions of life. "The creative act and actual experience," he said, are "one and the same...