Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good concert than a good course this week Soprano Lucy Shelton is offering an ambitious racital of 20th Century songs including Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens in this year of his 101st birthday. The excellent Music From Mariboro is in town again with chamber music of Hayden, Mozart, and Sir Donald Tovey whose compositions are being revived in his centennial year...
Music from Marlboro; a Haydn planotrio, a Mozart Divertimento, and Tovey's Horn Trio; The Longy School at 1 Follen...
...worked on the staff of "Scoop" Jackson's Senate Interior Committee. Although he backed military-spending projects like the ABM, Foley was chairman of the liberal Democratic Study Group. Unlike the bellow-voiced, unpopular Poage, Foley is quiet, almost diffident; he has a preference for Mozart and Bach...
This sort of thing is pointless, but it's innocent enough, and Bernstein admits that these analogies are only "quasi-scientific." In later lectures, though, he seems to take them quite seriously--at one point he even calls a bar of Mozart that involves both rhythm and harmony a "participle," as if you could mix parts of speech the way you mix blue and yellow to get green...
...Bernstein is a musician, after all, and when he talks about music without all the linguistic dross he is both entertaining and instructive, as he was during ten years of Young People's Concerts. There is nothing new for musicians in his analysis of Mozart's G minor symphony, Beethoven's Sixth and music of Berlioz and Wagner, but from the point of view of the layman he covers a lot of ground in a palatable...