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Spare a thought today for Dr. Leonhard Prinz. I know that you won't have heard of him. But if you're a baby-boomer, you probably knew someone just like him as you grew up in the '60s. Dr. Prinz was the music teacher at my elder brother's school. A booming, opinionated Austrian with mid-European charm, he was a frequent guest at my parents' dinner table in the '60s, where he would hold forth on the merits of Mozart and the contributions of Chopin...
...That was approximately 35 years ago, and I was thinking of him this morning as the Beatles new compilation "1" hit the No. 1 spot in more than 20 countries (including the U.S.) and the Beatles' first movie, "A Hard Day's Night," was reissued in America. Dr. Prinz was certainly not alone in his beliefs. The studio that originally produced "A Hard Day's Night," United Artists, commissioned the film only because they divined (correctly) that they would make money from the soundtrack album. So unconvinced were they that the film itself would have merit that they ordered producer...
...uneven as it was under the Menotti regime -- ranging from the spectacular (Irish actor Barry McGovern in I'll Go On, a mordant one-man show derived from three novels by Samuel Beckett) to the mediocre (Hans Werner Henze's tired exercise in late-'50s avant-gardism, Der Prinz von Homburg) to the risible (the washed-up soprano Renata Scotto singing the role of the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier). Still, Spoleto seems on course to become one of the nation's most important and enjoyable arts events...
DIED. LeRoy Prinz, 88, movie choreographer who staged athletic, high-kicking dance routines in such classics as Yankee Doodle Dandy and South Pacific; in Hollywood. A renowned raconteur who often told of his youthful adventures as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion and as entertainment coordinator for Al Capone's nightclubs, Prinz once declared: "The public thinks that a dancing master is a flighty individual with a handkerchief in his sleeve and a set of taps on his shoes. I'd rather you called me Butch...
Moreover, as scientists look into space, they are finding that volcanism helped shape the moon, Mars, Venus and smaller bodies, like the Jovian moon Io. Says Volcanologist Martin Prinz of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City: "I can't imagine an earthlike planet without volcanic activity...