Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first new production since taking over, Davis has presented Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and shown that he can do very well at the altar by himself. The production -attractively staged, dramatically paced-has delighted everybody: audiences, critics and-through Davis' simultaneously released Philips recording-listeners on both sides of the Atlantic. Davis suits tempo to text and voice to orchestral volume in a way that captivatingly illuminates the twin ingredients that make Mozart's music the miracle that it is -the hushed fury at its core, the tripping joy at its surface...
Last week Steinberg led the orchestra through a program of Shostakovich and Mozart that, besides being musically rewarding, demonstrated that the auditorium is an acoustical gem. Heinz Hall has what is called a good throw. Its sound reaches the audience in smooth, vibrant, evenly distributed waves. German Acoustician Heinrich Keilholz removed a lot of old velvet, surrounded the stage with reflector panels (removable for opera and ballet), then hung a larger, fan-shaped reflector out over the main floor. "In the old days," says Steinberg, "Pittsburghers had no way of telling what their orchestra really sounded like. To find...
...informed and comfortably free of jargon. This is primarily history, not a quick alphabetical reference aid (readers wanting that should try the Oxford Companion to Music). The knowing may regret the cursory treatment of American music and wonder, say, why Stravinsky and Berlioz are given chapter headings, but not Mozart or Debussy...
...donnas, that's all right, because once the artists are up there in front of the public, corruption disappears." BEING 75: "One of the nice things is that you don't have to go out so much. You can be very close to composers like Beethoven and Mozart and Bach, Haydn and Schumann, but that doesn't mean you have to run uptown all the time to hear them played. They're in the mind, like your grandmother...
...work together under performance conditions. I'm confident that, given the seasoned musicianship of the members and the rehearsal time. I will be very pleased with the concert sound." One of the basses added. "Yeah. And if it's good now, by the time of the Mozart Requiem in the spring, we should be great...