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...station broke its own record for the length of an orgy, by playing all of Mozart's works in chronological order, a feat which took 204 hours...
Like most teenagers, Kissin is a romantic at heart, though his still rather narrow repertoire includes Mozart and Haydn as well as Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich. In Amsterdam last year he was scheduled to play the Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1, even though the piece had by then become boring for him. The day before the performance brought the news that Andrei Sakharov had died. "That changed everything completely," he says. "I used to play the final movement with a lighthearted though sarcastic mood. After the news, it felt as though I had not performed the concerto in 10 years...
...which the revered Kilgore Trout (we assume, though the finest of pulp writers for some reason is not identified), in a journal called Black Garterbelt, explains the meaning of life. Germs, it seems, are being toughened by higher beings for the rigors of space travel; and human society -- Mozart, mutant turtles and all -- has amounted to nothing more than a convenient Petri plate...
...keynote address at the 1990 Salzburg music and drama festival. He accepted, figuring he would not be allowed to attend since the Communist government had not let him leave the country in many years. But now Havel is the government -- and he had R.S.V.P.ed, after all. So off to Mozart's birthplace the Czechoslovak President went last week, even if it did mean meeting his Austrian counterpart, Kurt Waldheim, thus breaching the international isolation imposed on the Austrian leader because of his dubious wartime past...
...Salzburg Easter Festival in Austria, Masur is capable of drawing passionate, powerful playing from his musicians. Neither a disciplinarian nor one of the boys, Masur favors a let-us-reason- together approach that prizes loyalty and enthusiasm over virtuosity. Not surprisingly, his repertoire is centered on the classics from Mozart to Mahler, which he conducts with short punchy gestures, usually without a baton. In Leipzig he led as many as 90 performances a year, including a healthy dollop of new music, mostly commissioned from East German composers. Says Masur: "I always told our audiences, 'You read not only Goethe...