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Typecasting is a hazard not only for actors but for pianists. Yet for listeners it has certain advantages. There is always a little extra pleased surprise when a celebrated Beethoven thunderer like Viennese Pianist Alfred Brendel also proves a fine interpreter of Mozart, as he just has in this summer's Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Folding his gawky body (6 ft. 1½ in., 164 lbs.) down on the piano stool like some large, clumsy bird, Brendel at times brought an almost wren-like elegance to the formalized passion of Mozart...
Died. Bernhard Paumgartner, 83, Austrian conductor-musicologist and one of the world's foremost authorities on Mozart; in Salzburg. Paumgartner had served only the first five of his 47 years as head of Salzburg's famed Mozarteum (conservatory) when in 1922 he joined Richard Strauss, Director Max Reinhardt and Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal in organizing the Salzburg Festival. Before he began his eleven years as the festival's president in 1960, Paumgartner proved eminently resourceful. Once, while recording Don Giovanni, he went so far as to slap a soprano in order to evoke a properly furious scream...
...standard pitch dates only from the mid-19th century. Ancient European organs show that the note A has varied from a low of 370 cycles to a high of about 567, a difference of almost a fifth, or the distance from F to C on a piano. Mozart's tuning fork shows he tuned his piano to 422, which means that the Concerto No. 21 in C (K. 467) is really a concerto in C sharp (or possibly D flat). As for Bach's B Minor Mass, it may have been written in B minor...
...million, while pop music, spurred largely by the vitality of rock, soared to $1.1 billion. By and large it is the young who spend all that money. Given the right impetus, they are not necessarily averse to the classics-as proved by what Elvira Madigan did for Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 467, or 2001: A Space Odyssey did for Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra. "If Elvira Madigan made Mozart a relevant experience for the youth generation," asks Munves, "why can't we make it happen for other composers...
...Barber, written by Rossini in 1816, comes after Figaro chronologically, but the action of the play is a prelude to that of the Mozart opera. In his role as Don Basilio, Gill will be called on to sing one of the most memorable parts of the opera, the "calumny" aria...