Word: poser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately, Alma's stepfather, a Viennese landscape artist named Carl Moll, was more perceptive. He brought Kokoschka home to paint - and cheer up -his beautiful stepdaughter, recently be reaved of her first husband, the Com poser Gustav Mahler. Alma's verdict: "A handsome figure, but disturbingly coarse." After the first sketching ses sion, Kokoschka stood up, embraced her and then dashed out of the room. A few hours later, she received the first of many proposals from...
...most readers knew, S. Y. Agnon and Nelly Sachs might have been creatures of the Nobel committee's imagination. Placing Agnon was easier: he turned out to be Israel's top novelist. But Nelly Sachs was a poser: A Jewish woman poet of 75 who wrote in German and lived (as she still does) in Sweden. Had the academy simply decided that it was the turn of Jewish writers? Did it already have in the wings an unsung Arab for the next time around...
...Rorem is tall, dark, hand some and undoubtedly the best com poser of art songs now living. "I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence. The New York City Opera and the Ford Foundation believed him, commissioned him to do an opera. Last week Rorem's opera, based on Strindberg's Miss Julie, had its premiere. The overall verdict: Rorem would have been better off with the encyclopedia - and the U.S. is still looking for its first major operatic composer...
ANNA MOFFO/LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI (RCA Victor). Miss Moffo sings Brazilian Com poser-Conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos' wanton Bachianas Brasileiras in a way that would excite Bach or any gypsy. Her voice has both richness and fluidity; her mood shifts with the song like quicksilver. In Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, she settles unfortunately into simpering sentimentality, which is not relieved by Stokowski's painfully slow pace...
...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...