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Professional artists have sometimes met that challenge by reducing realism to photographic limits; amateurs have generally chosen an easier way out, painting unconsciously formalized, decorative interpretations of their subjects. Both methods are discussed, and well illustrated with 134 examples, in a first-rate history published this week: Wolfgang Bern's Still-Life Painting in America (Oxford...
Salzburg was scandalized. The world première of the new opera, Danton's Death, was all set-and then the conductor stomped off after a rehearsal. It was a faint echo, at least, of the hectic days of the Salzburg Festival's patron saint, when Wolfgang Mozart dashed off the overture to Don Giovanni the night before its première in Prague...
Hollywood had been good to Erich Wolfgang Korngold. But was Hollywood good...
Americans who think that Hollywood has reach the depths would do well to sit all the way through "The Life of Mozart." Somewhere near the close the great Wolfgang is visited by a new pupil who sits at the piano to play a work of his own. The wild-eyed student starts into the opening phrases of the Eroica Symphony, and as the horns and strings come in from the background Mozart whispers hoarsely, "You cannot be my pupil, Laudwig; you have already learned all there is to know...
Chronically poverty-stricken Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wanted to be married, decided to compose a light little Singspiel to pay the bills, titled it Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). To make it popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entf...