Word: nachtmusik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performances of even so familiar a score as Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik often have the effect of surprise-not because of any personal eccentricities, but because Davis has the gift of illuminating faded colors and of silhouetting the thrust of familiar line and phrase...
...painful death, apparently of cancer, in Mexico in 1945-the final scenes accompanied by Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik played by a visiting string orchestra-is described with more good faith than taste; her death seems to have liberated Regler from bitterness and the wish to judge. As a gesture against political bullies back home, Marie Louise once carried a bamboo blowpipe to puff pepper into the eyes of German police; pity had made her, too, willing to blind someone. Symbolically, Regler buried the pepper gun with her in her coffin...