Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those with specialized tastes, there are all-Mozart programs in Würz-burg (June 13-20) and Augsburg, Germany (July 3-Aug. 14), the famed Wagner Ring cycle in Bayreuth (July 25-Aug. 30), Beethoven in Bonn (Sept. 19-Oct. 10), not to mention the first annual International Mandolin Festival in Verviers, Belgium (July 3). Florence's Maggio Musicale (through June 20) will repeat its popular production of Director-Set Designer Franco Zef-ferelli's Euridice, while Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy (June 24-July 18), will augment...
...PROVENCE (July 11-Aug. 1), a historic spa 17 miles north of Marseille, traditionally provides the most exciting of the French festivals. Held in the torchlighted, tapestry-draped courtyard of the archbishop's palace, the event will feature, in addition to its annual Mozart cycle (Cosi fan Tutte, Die Zauberflote), concerts by Sopranos Regine Crespin and Teresa Stich-Ran dall, Violinist Igor Oistrakh and the Smith-Princeton Chamber Chorus...
...Moscow and Kiev, after an evening of Brahms and Mozart, several of the musicians adjourned to the youth cafés to sit in on jam sessions with the local hipsters. In Tbilisi, the orchestra was treated to a sumptuous banquet and serenaded by Georgian folk singers. The only sour note of the tour was sounded privately by the musicians, who rightfully questioned Szell's generally lightweight selection of American works, including two insipidities by Composers William Grant Still and Herbert Elwell, a native of Cleveland...
...program began with Mozart's Haffner Symphony. In previous concerts the HRO has played Mozart without adequate discipline, but Friday night they displayed complete mastery. The violins were unexpectedly precise, despite difficult sections of trills and runs. The orchestra did not sacrifice emotional force for precision, however, and the trio of the third movement was interpreted almost romantically. The controlled performance of the finale added to its excitement...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will conclude its season at 8:30 p.m. tonight with a concert in Sanders Theatre. The program will include works by Mahler, Mozart, and Verdi, and the world premiere of conductor James D. Yannatos's Prieres dans l'arche, Chloe Owen, soprano, will be the soloist in the Mahler and Yannatos works...