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...Piano for Mozart, Please...
Chorus Pro Musica. Alfred Nash Patterson conducts Mozart Requiem Sing at Harvard Club of Boston. Sunday at 8 p.m. Admission...
...down to a claptrap scene-barely suitable for framing on celluloid-in which Fortnum, Plarr and the kidnapers, led (yes) by a renegade priest named Leon, are beleaguered by police with searchlights and a helicopter. But much of the novel is as finely controlled and exquisitely melancholy as a Mozart symphony...
...talked about Valentina, sixtyish, his French wife of 20 years: "To encounter a woman in your life is a stroke of chance accorded by heaven. I don't think there was a creator who didn't depend on his wife's opinions. Oh, there were some. Mozart was unhappy with his wife. But if the encounter is a success, what does she give? All of life!" Later, "Vava," who watches her husband's work through all of its stages, returned the compliment. "He's always saying charming things like that. He is such an amiable...
...major innovation was Ustinov's abandonment of the traditional setting of the opera-the brocaded and balconied court life of old Seville-in favor of a Goyaesque countryside vision of 18th century Spain. "Like Goya," said Ustinov, "Mozart had a fine sense of the intense dark and light sides of life, often imprisoned so tightly together that it is frightening to ask too many questions. The people in Don Giovanni could have been the people staring at you from the depths of Goya's portraits." As for the don himself, said Ustinov, he is "not really my kind...