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Jesse usually begged off when sides were chosen for a sand-lot ball game, and he had no girlfriend. But he played the violin and he excelled at the tuba. He practiced with the Monroe High School
Mozart: The Symphonies, Vol. 5, Salzburg, 1775-1783 (The Academy of Ancient Music directed by Jaap Schroder, violin, and Christopher Hogwood, harpsichord; L'Oiseau-Lyre, four records). How did Mozart's music sound in Mozart's day? The Academy of Ancient Music, one of Britain's best original-instruments ensembles, is answering the question with its traversal of 68 Mozart symphonies-27 more than the commonly accepted 41. They are played on 18th century instruments or modern replicas, which are tuned slightly lower than their modern counterparts. Such familiar works as the "Hajffher" and "Linz"symphonies...
...Sarney, Trattler & Waitkus credits four slick 30-second TV spots for a 35% boost in business. Says Partner Saul Sarney: "We're reaching a whole group of people who didn't know what their rights were and felt intimidated by lawyers." In one bankruptcy ad, a violin plays as workmen cart furniture out of a home and a voice intones: "When financial tragedy strikes, you don't have to lose everything ... There are laws to protect...
...Harbison saw productions of his first two operas, Winter's Tale and Full Moon in March. The past 15 months brought two major premieres: the Violin Concerto, which he wrote for his violinist wife Rose Mary, and the Piano Concerto, which won the Kennedy Center prize. Earlier this month in Santa Fe, two new Harbison works got their first performances. Mottetti di Montale is a darkly elegiac, 50-minute song cycle based on po ems by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Piano Quintet is a spare and acerbic five-movement...
...products are still made by hand." Alpen Zauber has brought legal action against Häagen-Dazs for threatening to withhold its ice cream from distributors who sold Alpen Zauber. Mattus says that he is not worried by the other phony foreigners: they may eventually learn to play the violin, he says, but that will not enable them to compete with a virtuoso...