Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider what happens when a modern symphony orchestra and soloist perform a Mozart piano concerto. The string section, often much larger than any Mozart had at his disposal, blasts out its parts on violins and cellos better suited to powerful Strauss tone poems. The wind instruments are louder and more penetrating than classical flutes, oboes and clarinets and more complex in their mechanisms. The piano, a huge concert grand with a booming bass, is worlds removed from its gentler 18th century forerunner. In this welter of sound, inner voices are lost, delicate balances are destroyed. Exciting as the performance might...
This is no dusty, scholarly discipline but the restorative obsession of passionate musicians. "When I heard Hogwood's cassette of Mozart's 'Jupiter' Symphony on original instruments the other day," says Albert Fuller, an enthusiastic participant in the movement, "it made me feel hot inside-drop-dead, roll-around, fall-over, lava hot." The sense of excitement is immediate and infectious, and the original-instruments movement is now beginning to have an effect on the way standard repertory is performed. "On instruments, one hears the composers almost for the first time," says John Eliot Gardiner...
...idea that infants can start acquiring an education has tempted ambitious parents for centuries. At the age of three, John Stuart Mill learned Greek, and Mozart was playing the harpsichord. Both were taught by their hard-driving fathers. Today, New York City's fashionable nursery schools not only interview two year olds (and charge their anxious parents $1,200 a year for two mornings of schooling a week), but they also report applications outrunning openings by as much...
Clark and his wife Joan enjoy Washington's social whirl, but often prefer evenings of classical music, especially Mozart, at the Kennedy Center. They live in a small apartment in Foggy Bottom that Bill Clark finds confining because there is no open air for his beloved barbecue grill. The apartment is modestly furnished, dominated by a contemporary wall tapestry of St. Francis of Assisi and pictures of their five children, ages 20 to 27. The couple are devout Roman Catholics who attend church regularly and prefer Latin Mass...
...came of age blowing its mind and ended up blow-drying its hair. Trivializing disturbs him: "The rational Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness embarked upon in the American Revolution translates into the flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...