Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leon Kirchner has had a startling career as a professional pianist, a most prominent composer, and now Professor of Music at Harvard. He put this versatility into practice last night in performing with violinist Joseph Silverstein and cellist Samuel Mayes; yet the quality the three produced in works of Mozart and Kirchner himself was not uniform. As is so common with ensembles that feature contemporary music, the performances of modern works surpassed those of the classical ones...
Senturia conducting Webern and Mozart was prodigy performing prodigies...
...other triumph of the evening was Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony, No. 41. The HRO displayed its impressively solid strings and wood-wind ensemble. Senturia followed a sharp initial attack with a fine, deliberate tempo. He concluded the fun of the third movement (Allegretto) with a stately allargando. And in the fugal stacking of themes at the final coda, he delineated each important voice...
...MUSIC: If I ever go to heaven, I would first inquire about Mozart, and only then about Augustine. Thomas, Luther, Calvin and Schleiermacher...
...exaltation of Schubert's Auf dem Wasser zu singen was conveyed more in the singer's facial expression than in the somewhat imperfect articulation of the notes. Madame Schwarzkopf's historical curiosity got the better of her usually flawless taste when she chose to sing a version of Mozart's Voi che sapete "with embellishments noted down at a performance in Vienna at which Mozart was present." As the soprano explained, such frills and furbelows were usually improvised on the spur of the moment and then forgotten; this version of the aria, however, lay hidden in a German castle until...