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...composer's romantic temperament asserted itself more freely in the other works on the program, which he also conducted. His Mozart Symphony No. 40 exulted with bravura, mystery, and finesse, focusing on large forms, rather than individual phrases. The mood was thus more consistent, but some of the lines and ends of phrases got lost, creating an occasional lack of definition within small sections...
Miss Luis Vosgerchian will be the featured soloist. The program also includes Brahm's Symphony Number 4 and Mozart's Symphony Number...
...when Wagner and Verdi had conclusively proved that the promise of great opera lay elsewhere. Blind to their examples, Bizet wrote six or seven good numbers which have since become standards and filled out the rest of Carmen with tedium and theft. The Second Act quintet is bad imitation Mozart, the Third Act trio bad imitation Rossini, and Micaela's Air good imitation Meverbeer, which is just as bad. Carmen proves Bizet to be the Milton Berle of music...
Suddenly the pianissimo sales grew into what for a classical record amounts to a forte. Although until recently the film was playing-in only four U.S. cities, the album has now sold 15,000 copies. This week Mozart's "new" hit climbed to No. 21 on Billboard's chart of bestselling classical records. And the surge is spreading to other versions: RCA's five-year-old issue, played by Artur Rubinstein, is selling four times faster since Elvira arrived...
...woman falls in love with her male mulatto cook? Pretty much what one would expect down on the Gulf Coast in 1854. He is handsome and graceful and goes by the name of Beauty Beast. He knows what to do with herbs and French sauces, and he can play Mozart and lesser composers on the pianoforte. His mistress, Sidney Shallop, has never known anything more moving...