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GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL (through Aug. 3) presents four operas amid the ambiance of a lush, 125-acre Sussex estate. Mozart's Cosi fan tutte and Don Giovanni alternate with Massenet's Werther and Debussy's Pelléas et Melisande...
When conducting, Woody took delight in a wide range of repertory, with specialties in the Renaissance, the Golden Age of choral music, 20th Century contemporaries, and the classics of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Berlioz, and Brahms...
...counselling the couple to pay attention to natural forms (pebbles, grass) to find their meanings, is set afire after she declares "End the daily murder! Cover flowers with flames!" In this sequence--as in sequences where they ignore a figure reading Rousseau, and interrupt a beautiful rendition of a Mozart sonata--the characters are merely destroying the cultural background of their bourgeois society. The beauty of Godard's compositions and camera motions in these sequences in undermined by their violent, petty responses, which begin to pull the film apart. In Godard's other films such scenes give the characters...
...more than half a dozen works-notably Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, to which he brings astonishing rhythmic control and a primitive passion for the work's savage shafts of power. He does not much care for Brahms, Tchaikovsky, or Bruckner, but his conducting of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn has been superb in its structural logic. During his Philharmonic stay, he attracted a younger, more intellectual audience than usual. Even the hard-to-please orchestra was impressed with his mentality and uncanny ear. "He's probably got the greatest musical ear in the world," says Saul...
...back to the reign of music-loving Emperor Leopold I, who in 1659 tried to distract his subjects from problems of the plague and the Counter-Reformation by staging Italian opera at his court. The royal theatricals became a showcase for the works of such musical immortals as Gluck, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. Toward the end of the 19th century, Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler ushered in another Golden Age of Viennese opera by stressing dramatic stagecraft as well as musical excellence in his productions. The years that followed were a time of great names (Enrico Caruso, Maria Jeritza, Lotte...