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Seurat, like Masaccio or Mozart, was a true prodigy. Born in 1859, he succumbed to an attack of galloping diphtheria in 1891, at 31. This all too early death has had the effect of concentrating his life around a single stylistic effort, the invention of pointillism. The one thing everyone knows about Seurat is that he painted rather stiff pictures composed of dots, in the belief that this system of breaking down color into its constituent parts was scientific and not, like Monet's Impressionism, intuitive...
Much of the current controversy in Russian opera involves repertory. The ossified Soviet opera machinery, reflecting the narrow tastes of its erstwhile Soviet masters, plays only traditional Russian works, rarely touches Mozart or Wagner or anything from the 20th century. The outside world hardly needs new versions of La Traviata, and an indifference to new music also characterizes Western opera. Furthermore, the Bolshoi's traditionalism has helped preserve some splendid but otherwise neglected music. Still, Soviet opera musicians feel constrained and constricted. "The country strives to reacquire its cultural identity, to restore the natural chain of cultural history that...
...listeners lolling on the grass. Leading dance companies and symphony orchestras emerge from their winter homes to blossom in dells or along breezy lakeshores. Opera companies and rep theaters haunt the deserts at night. Cultural traditions and folkways are everywhere on display. This year is the bicentennial of Mozart's death. New England mountain greenery will echo with his works; a traveler can head westward, enjoying the composer's pieces in big towns and small and, in late August, take in a grand Amadeus finale in the vastness of the Hollywood Bowl...
...MAGIC FLUTE (PBS, June 19, 8 p.m. on most stations). Artist David Hockney designed this Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart, starring Kathleen Battle...
...will grace and love, evil's enemies, wither too? The question goes back to the Garden. Does the good become meaningless in a world without evil? Do the angels depart along with the devils? If the stainless canister knows nothing of evil, will Mozart sound the same to it as gunfire...