Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Skyman, accompanied by George Faulkner, will sing arias by Handel, Mozart, Cul, and Hemberg...
...theatrically, provide as agreeable a romp as anything that had been sung on a Manhattan stage in years. Viennese Theo Otto's frivolous set and gay 18th-Century costumes-worn by opera singers who for once looked perfectly at home in them-made a completely plausible background for Mozart's tale of deception which proves that all women are fickle...
...socialite ladies, flashing even more ermine and jewels than had been exhibited at the opening of the Chicago City Opera last fortnight. The ladies were out in force, for this was a ladies' evening. On the stage, pretty Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao (Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera) sang Mozart, Massenet. Verdi in her Chicago debut. The 76-piece orchestra, demurely clad in dark dresses, was all-woman. But it was not quite...
...before, the New Friends' concerts take place during the city Sunday's quietest, most leisurely hour, from 5:30 to 7 p. m. As before, applause is frowned upon and there is no chatty intermission. Devout subscribers will hear nothing but Mozart, Schubert, Schumann. For the first time, all the music will be recorded by RCA Victor; some of it in advance. Friend of Music Hirschmann's thesis- that chamber music is too rarely played in public, too hard to get on discs-had scored another point...
...last year bore heavily on Brahms, emphasized the evolution of Beethoven's musical thought, showed the place of the piano in chamber music. In planning this year's programs, Pianist Monath performed the notable feat of reading through the massive tome, Chronologisch-systematisches Verzeichnis sammtlicher Tonwerke Mozarts, by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, who patiently numbered each & every one of Mozart's voluminous works. She emerged with such rarities as a Mozart sonata for bassoon and cello, a quintet for piano and wind instruments, a sextet for strings and horns...