Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This style set the "basic potential of dramatic expression in music" which all later composers accepted, Schrade claimed. He called Gluck's attempts to reform this style "fruitless discussion," and said that in Wagner's music dramas "unbridled passion still remained the basis." If Mozart did not write a "full-blown" tragedy in Don Glovanni, the opera at least "betokened the features of tragedy" because "no sharp bound can be set where comedy ends and tragedy begins...
...Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
...What Is a Melody? - Second Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein and the N.Y. Philharmonic explore melodies through Wagner, Mozart, Hindemith and Brahms...
...Pianist Agustin Anievas, 28, made Carnegie Hall debut with a program ot Mozart. Chopin. Brahms, Liszt and Sessions Anievas won last year's Dimitn Mitropoulos International Music Competition beating out 46 other pianists and earning as part of his prize the S. Hurok-sponsored debut. From a year away, Anievas and Hurok unerringly picked the first week of the strike. "This would be my luck," said Anievas gloomily, "to pick a week when the press is out for lunch. As things turned out, it was probably just as well. Despite his virtuoso technique. Anievas' playing lacked authority...
...aging master has no more qualms than he ever did about tampering with the instrumentation of the masters to achieve the sound he wants. "You must realize," he says, "that Beethoven and Brahms did not understand instruments. Composers like Ravel, Debussy and Mozart did." Nor can he see why the high professional gloss of his new orchestra should cause surprise. Says Stokowski: "It's a misunderstanding that an orchestra must be together for a long time; some orchestras have been together for a century and still cannot play well...