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The Metropolitan Duccio.(Notebook)(Critical Essay)
Imagine this: like most other civilized people, you have more than a superficial interest in the great music of the past. For decades you have been aware of a rumor circulating among music professionals that a manuscript score for an early Mozart quartet--an autograph by the teenage prodigy--was found soon after the last war in one of the Lobkowitz castles near Prague, having inexplicably eluded the scrutiny of the diligent Ritter von Kochel. It had then languished through the long Communist night in a sate of the Ministry of Culture. Only tantalizing bits and pieces of third-hand transcriptions had filtered out--a pale reflection of the delights that the work in its ...
- STOCLET HOUSE INSCRIBED ON UNESCO'S WORLD HERITAGE LIST
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 3, 2009 700+ words
...Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization issued the following news release: When banker and art collector Adolphe Stoclet commissioned this house from one of the leading architects of the Vienna Secession movement, Josef Hoffmann, in 1905...
- BU Opera's `Idomeneo' is a musical gem.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Medrek, T.J. April 20, 2003 700+ words
...night at the Boston University Theatre when four young, fresh voices from the BU Opera Institute combined in an intricate Mozart quartet that was, operatically speaking, as good as it gets. Indeed, all of the opening performance of Mozart's 1781 "Idomeneo...
- Peerless ensemble forgoes schtick for musical brilliance.
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) February 12, 2006 700+ words
...intensity, and in each the Guarneri drove right to the heart. Many point only to the chromatic slow introduction of this Mozart quartet as the reason for the subtitle but in fact this music is complicated, edgy and, yes, dissonant in many passages; it...
- SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL HAS BECOME PART OF VIOLINIST EHNES' LIFE.(What's...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. June 29, 2007 700+ words
...my personal head space. It is also important for my hands. Chamber music has a different set of demands. If you play a Mozart quartet, you concentrate more on musical subtleties and beauty of tone. With the Paganini concerto, musical subtleties and beauty...
- ART;The Very Model of a Modernist
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Michael Welzenbach February 8, 1989 700+ words
...1988), a rectangle divided by a horizon, with sensuous blue forms below and a fractured black line above, recalls a Mozart quartet. A composition of nuance and gentle wit. Although Pasmore is not well known outside Europe, habitual gallery-goers...
- SIR GEORG BIRTHDAY FETE HITS JUST THE RIGHT NOTE
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) September 11, 1987 700+ words
...London, with Perahia. Although a storm-beset tour of the western U.S. last year forced him to perform parts of a Mozart quartet while waiting for instruments to arrive, he's never performed in concert with an orchestra here before. That fact alone...
- Quartet shows off versatility
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times WYNNE DELACOMA December 17, 1996 700+ words
...hearing this elegiac music in waves of satiny violins that hearing it played so ardently on a lone violin is compelling. The Mozart quartet offered a fine mix, with meditative or weighty sections matching the darker mood of the evening's Berg and Barber pieces...
- Scala quartet soars, no thanks to the boors
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Robert C. Marsh May 12, 1987 700+ words
...Verdi's Quartet in E Minor is music we Quartetto della Scala at the Civic Theater Monday. Quartet in D, K. 421, Mozart; Quartet No. 2, Borodin; Quartet in E Minor, Verdi. look to Italian perfomers to bring to us. It is a wonderful piece, full...