Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 44, the most famous French flutist of the age, this week had a concert date in Paris to play Mozart's Concerto for Flute in D Major. A large man with a suave stage presence, Rampal cannot make the flute sing as Baker can, but he does make it speak with a wonderfully expressive French accent. He is the master showman of his instrument, and he charms an audience as a fakir charms a snake...
...wish I could be so enthusiastic about the rest of the concert. Mozart's 29th Symphoney suffered from out-of-tune high notes by the violins. The horns nearly saved the day with, mirabile dictu, a splendid performance--until the very end, when an ascending passage brought on the inevitable...
...Your enthusiasm overreaches itself when you call his playing of Mozart "impeccable." Though fine indeed, it is still marred by that same romanticism that is the Rubinstein trademark. What is interesting in this regard is not the pianist's limitation but the certainty that he will improve, that in time his Mozart will have the clarity and refinement it needs. On the basis of his spirit and energy alone, Rubinstein deserves his superb life...
...hopes that the letters will help readers to "enjoy De Sade's dark erotic paradise without guilt." Freud and Havelock Ellis ("the supreme triumph of human idealism") are cited. Fair enough from these specialists, but Lely insists that one letter can be compared only to "the music of Mozart." In other places, Shakespeare and Aristophanes are somehow invoked. The correspondence foreshadows De Lautreamont, Arthur Rimbaud and Alfred...
James D. Yannatos, assistant professor of Music, will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in works by Gabrieli, Yannatos (world premier), Mozart, and Ravel at 8:30 p.m. night in sanders Theatre. Tickets at Coop and at the door...