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Imagine his personal fear and his ire at God when Mozart, "the obscene boy," appears with the music of heaven, sublimely, effortlessly at his fingertips. And what a Mozart! Impudent, abrasively egocentric, silly in behavior, foul of mouth, a wine-bibbing libertine. Tim Curry's Mozart is unforgettable, an imp of the perverse, a strangely vulnerable Pan on a goatish night...
...other is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tim Curry), who may be called a man or an immortal. We first meet Salieri on the day of his attempted suicide, when, with a twisted senile smirk, he begs the audience for absolution...
...claims to have poisoned Mozart years before. Beethoven reported this unsubstantiated charge in an entry of his conversation book of 1824. More pertinently, Salieri confesses to the envy that breeds malice when a mediocre talent meets a transcendent genius. In editing and reshaping his own text for Broadway, Shaffer makes jealousy a key factor in Salieri's persistent savaging of the hard-pressed Mozart in his attempts to secure court posts and paying pupils...
...propped up by quantities of Laurentian burblings about roots, darkness and the archetypal perceptions of the blood. Who, today, would take such an effusion seriously, and what museum would bother with it? To represent Virginia Woolf as a clump of pottery labia majora is on a par with symbolizing Mozart as a phallus. It mashes the complex truths of a great artist's life and work into one obsessive stereotype-all in the name of "history...
...Notte--Four "night" works by as many composers, including Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." The surprise of the set, performed by the Lucerne Festival Strings, is Boccherini's evocative quintet, "Night Music of the Streets of Madrid," which alone is worth the price of admission. (Vanguard...