Monthly Archives: December 1991

For this final Sunday of the Mozart year, another fond glance at music’s purest genius might be in order.The admirable project begun by Philips, to amass a complete recording of the Mozartian heritage in its numerical and radiant fullness, nears … Continue reading →

Some brain-dead hobgoblin decreed some time ago that the Christmas season is a time of silence. Our concert halls are empty, except for a stray sing-along “Messiah.” Home from the holidays, the kids might, you’d think, find diuersion or self-improvement … Continue reading →

Two veterans of the local battlefields have been back among us these weeks. Zubin Mehta is currently here at his old stand, the Los Angeles Philharmonic podium; the first of his three programs here will be repeated this afternoon at … Continue reading →

SUGGESTED HED: CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, NEW AND OLDSome music, like some great stage ‘n’ screen stars, never shows its age. Some music, like minor luminaries, begins to wrinkle right at birth. You never know.After as much Mozart as we’ve heard in … Continue reading →

STEVE: I have art for opera; will bring by Tuesday noonishRossini’s “Barber of Seville” — exquisitely comic, meticulously timed, both supple and subtle — has been put forward by the Music Center Opera as a mindless, vulgar laff show. Imposed, … Continue reading →