Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mantle of soulful martyr but still seems no more than a fierce embodiment of divine purpose, as stiff and one-dimensional as those who have gone before. The movie sags at the center, weighed down by interminable closeups and sermons. The sound track swells with passages from Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Webern, an African Mass and-as an odd counterpoint to the Nativity-Odetta's recording of Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child. The strength of Pasolini's Gospel rests on those moments when he forgoes static, calendar-art conventions to fill the screen with direct, provocative...
...mood is broken-no, shattered -when he is removed from the tonal world that has just been established. And just because some inconsiderate couple felt like dawdling over their coffee." To teach latecomers a lesson, Stokowski once had his musicians wander idly off-and onstage while playing a Mozart symphony. Another time he turned to the audience and conducted the coughers: "All right, cough!" he commanded. "I want a rhythmic cough! Make it louder...
...nation's symphony orchestras increased their average number of concerts by 12%. The most performed composers: Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Wagner; the most performed works: Bach's Choral Prelude, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite No. 2, Haydn's Symphony...
...evening of chamber music is all but irrepressible. An Army officer's wife one day was approached by a stranger who noticed a telltale mark on her neck: "You must play the violin. Would you like to join our group?" A Boston doctor, hearing a man whistling a Mozart theme on the street, whistled back and soon had a date for duets. One desperate violinist pinned notes to trees in his neighborhood...
...supreme danseur noble. The finest technician on two feet, his endless pursuit of classic perfection forgoes the kind of passionate abandon that marks the style of Rudolf Nureyev, the only other dancer in his class. Says one ballerina: "Nureyev is like Callas singing Bellini; Bruhn is like Schwarzkopf singing Mozart." But Bruhn has learned something about characterization from his friend Nureyev. As Don Jose in Roland Petit's version of Carmen, Bruhn was a man possessed, a smoldering Valentino driven by lust and racked with despair. Eyes afire, nostrils flaring, he sprang about the shadowy stage with the fierce...