Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be good," but I have a strong suspicion that the composer of Time Cycle and Echoi has not suddenly stopped writing masterpieces and started writing trash. Moreover, your review is strongly reminiscent of the derisive criticism that has greeted every major composer. One is reminded of Mozart's clarinet concerto ("Unfit for ladies' ears") and Beethoven's seventh symphony ("The death agonies of an eviscerated serpent"). ANDREW STILLER Madison...
...uncanny memory for the favorite tunes of conventioneers who return only once every two or three years, bones up on a little red notebook in which he keeps the names of patrons, their physical characteristics and their songs. With a spotlight trained on his hands, he sometimes plays Mozart and Chopin, remembered from his days at the New England Conservatory. Like all cocktail pianists, he is philosophical about lack of attention. "When they don't listen," he says, "I listen myself...
...Mozart Requiem is a redoubtable piece of music, largely because it is not all Mozart's. Left unfinished at his death, the Requiem was completed by one Sussmayr on commission from Mozart's widow. Only the Requiem aeternam and the Kyrie are pure Mozart, while the rest was either reconstructed from hs sketches or fabricated totally anew. As a result, many musicians in recent years have not considered the work worth performing...
...such thoughts here. Saturday night, conductor F. John Adams exploded this musical myth and several others. In addition to mounting the Mozart-Sussmayr Requiem complete, Adams had Robert Levin compose an Amen fugue to follow the sequence Dies irae. Levin's fugue was based on fragments left by Mozart which Sussmayr, for some obscure reason, preferred to leave untouched. Brief but masterful and prodigious, the fugue sported a long Brahmsian timpanum roll which acted as a tonic pedal bringing the fugue to conclusion. It was another plume for Levin's many chapeaux...
...precise even in the most complex fugal passages. He was also sensitive enough to maintain a continuous musical line and forward motion in spite of his deliberately slow pacing. Former math major or no, Adams is quite a musician. His Lacrymosa, even if most of the section is not Mozart's, was beatific...