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...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was small, rachitic, poor and struggling. His music was grand, architecturally superb, rich and blissful. The contrast between Mozart the man and Mozart the musician never ceases to amaze. Says Bruno Walter, one of Mozart's great musical interpreters: "His personality has remained strangely remote to the world...
...Prague saw the three roisterers parading the tiny cobbled streets-huge, toothless Lorenzo, with his booming laugh; senile Casanova, with sparks of old fire in his eyes; between them, Wolfgang, trotting along in a vacuum of bliss and ideas, a quiet little man, looking up at each in turn to catch the last outrageous remark and cap it with some Salzburger dreckiger Witz (dirty joke) that made them pound his slight back and bellow with...
...focused on something new in Met history (though long used by European opera houses): a revolving stage. The question was whether it would ever work well enough to permit any bravas at all. Almost every time it was turned, to switch the action from one to another of Designer Wolfgang Roth's three pretty sets, something got caught. But by curtain time, the mechanism was behaving itself. The evening proved one of the Met's gayest in years-a mood helped along by a ballet prelude, Soiree, choreographed by Zachary Solov against a brilliant setting by Cecil Beaton...
...West Berlin, on the tenth anniversary of the attempt on Hitler's life, John met with a bunch of his old "resistance" pals to celebrate. Later that night he had taken a taxi to the house of Dr. Wolfgang ("Wowo") Wohlgemuth, an old friend-as well as a suspected Communist. Together they had been seen driving into East Berlin...
...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 200 years ago come next Jan. 27, in Salzburg. At seven, he was examined by a scientifically inclined Englishman who published his findings about the "amazing and incredible" boy. But despite early promise Mozart died (at 35) leaving the world largely unappreciative of his 600-odd compositions and his towering stature as composer.-In 1956, practically every musical organization from Valparaiso to Vienna will stage some kind of commemoration, aware that the 20th century cannot produce a genuine allegro...