Word: nachtmusik
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Grownups got Bastien and Bastienne, a one-act operetta composed when Mozart was twelve; a mime and dance based on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; a playlet, Mozart Visits the Empress; and a ballet, The Dying Swan, featuring a puppet Pavlova to music by Saint...
Koussevitsky has chosen a varied program, including both modern and classic works. Mozart's perennial favorite, the Serenade for Strings, Dine Kleine Nachtmusik, will be played, along with representative selections from three modern composers, Piston, Prokofieff, and Ravel...
This year, for Salzburg's third postwar festival, something new had been added. There was still Mozart nachtmusik by candlelight under the stars, and a performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But the big news was Danton's Death, composed by young (28) Gottfried von Einem, Austria's newest claim to musical fame. Einem had set to music Georg Büchner's 1834 drama of the French Revolution: he was inspired, he said, by the plot on Hitler's life, and the Nürnberg trials. Einem and his father, trying to escape...
...enjoying the 15-minute walk in the bright morning sunshine. The sermon topic: "America's Peril." In the cool of the evening he drove to the Lincoln Memorial in an open touring car, heard the National Symphony Orchestra play a presidential request number (Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik) from a barge anchored in the Potomac...
...fell off the Beaux-Arts' modernistic stage and injured her arm so badly she couldn't play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week's end the intrepid Manchesterites were still...