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...cobalt sky like a giant circus balloon. The landscape was dotted with papier-mache roses and lilies and peopled by curly-horned horses, characters in tasseled, clownlike costumes, and a peruked barrister in trailing robes. Thus the surface of the moon appeared to the space dreamers of Franz Joseph Haydn's day, and last week the vision glowed warmly on the stage of The Hague's Royal Theater as part of the Holland Festival. Occasion: the first complete performance since Haydn's time of his opera The World of the Moon (its original third act was lost...
...last week's performance, Moon proved to be a frolicsome work with a gaily rippling score, evocative of Haydn's more celebrated The Seasons. If it was sometimes as thin as the moon's atmosphere itself, it also offered several rollicking ensembles, a rousing love duet, and a bubbly beat, as if Papa Haydn had been determined to do a gavotte straight into the stratosphere...
...fruits of a collaboration between Beethoven and a Scottish office clerk named George Thomson, who made a hobby of collecting folk music. To render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy titles as Faithful Johnie and The Lovely Lass of Inverness. All the tunes have a willowy charm, and occasional instrumental passages...
...very, very successful." Pat Knopf's new partners are certainly very, very savvy editors. Harper's Bessie (past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some acid sidelights...
...Editor Haydn has worked with such authors as Jerome (The Enemy Camp) Weidman and Ayn (The Fountainhead) Rand, discovered or brought along such young novelists as William (Lie Down in Darkness) Styron and H. L. (Paris Underground) Humes. Says another of his authors, Truman Capote: "He is one of these very fatherly types. He is aggressively normal-you can see the blink behind the eye even though the eye is open. He is very much the commuter, and really the perfect editor-for people who need an editor...