Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vera Janacopulos, a native of Greece, will be the soprano soloist at the Boston Symphony Concert tonight in Sanders theatre. The principal numbers on the program are as follows: Mendelsson, Overture to "A Midsunmter Night's Dream; Mozart Symphony in C major, "Jupiter"; Charpentier, "impressions of Italy...
...greatest violoncellist alive. Kreisler went so far as to call him the "greatest musician that has ever drawn a bow." His numbers tonight will include, in addition to two obligatos for the Glee Club, Tartini's "Concerto in D," and Beethoven's "Seven Variations on a Theme by Mozart." The most notable of the Glee Club's numbers will be "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee," from Bach's "Sleepers Wake...
...return she was to have had her long desired American debut as an opera prima donna. She did sing with the Company in Detroit, Albany, New London. She sang the difficult role of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, but under assumed names. Her appearance under her real name was to be reserved for Manhattan. In one Manhattan performance Mme. Walska was about to take her role, but stepped aside to enable a new singer to make her debut. She was to appear in the next performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But that performance never came...
...value of prodigies seems much in doubt. Endless numbers of them, with genius in infancy, have come to mediocrity in maturity. On the other hand, many of the world's finest artists have been infant prodigies, witness Josef Hofmann, at the piano, Mozart in composition...
...asserted that the facts fail to prove the case. Emphatically they prove nothing against beardless brilliance. Horrible as a nation of prodigies would be, one now and then escapes premature impotence. There was a boy Chatterton who fooled wiseacres, an astounding child Macaulay, and the infant Mozart who played so sweetly that the whole family risked pneumonia to listen. And then, more recently, there is Daisy Ashford and the "Young Visitors...