Word: mozarts
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When Director Roman Polanski (Tess), 48, was mulling over candidates to portray Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the upcoming Paris production of the Broadway hit Amadeus, he cast his eye near and far, and finally settled on near. He chose himself. After all, who better to capture the essence of the young musical prodigy with the libertine air than a child actor turned acclaimed adult director with a sometime taste for the reckless moment. Polanski, who will direct the play, which stars Francois Périer, 62, as Mozart's nemesis Antonio Salieri, and Actress Sonia Vollereaux...
...Mozart: The Symphonies, Salzburg 1766-1772, Vol. 2 (L'Oiseau-Lyre, 3 LPs). The latest in the Academy of Ancient Music's revelatory Mozart cycle, on period instruments...
...Benatar; and to Lewiston, N.Y., for the American premiere of Philip Glass's controversial new op era, Satyagraha. He has been to Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Santa Fe, and the White House twice, once for a memorable concert featuring the American debut of a long-lost Mozart symphony. Last week found Walsh in Paris to review Peter Brook's idiosyncratic new production of Bizet's opera Carmen. "I don't mind the travel at all," says Walsh. "It's part of what makes the job of TIME music critic so rewarding...
...suicidal America provides crude, coin-operated Magic Theatres for its Steppenwolves, consolation for its lonely citizens. The letters flash by with a large and bright finality that eulogizes the machine's return to programmed peace. The ending taunts the defeated human, America's new opiate lacks the sublimity of Mozart and allows only illusory release. In its cruel and premeditated way, the finish cuts off the little bit of himself that he entrusted to the machine, and leaves only frustration in its place...
SHLOMO MINTZ has been a quickly rising talent in the United States since his debut at age 16 in Carnegie Hall. He has shown up everywhere from Mostly Mozart concerts with Yo Yo Ma at Lincoln Center to solo appearances with the Israeli Symphony. He recently recorded the Mendelssohn and Bruch (G minor) violin concerti. However, his most recent accomplishment, a recording of Kreisler pieces and arrangements, shows he lacks good taste and ability in program selection. These Kreisler shorts have been encore pieces for violinistic virtuosos since they were first recorded by Kreisler in the mid-1920s. They...