Friday, February 10, 2006

Best of Mozart - La Scala Revives Mozart Production (ABC News)



La Scala Revives Mozart Production (ABC News)
La Scala Revives Mozart Production As Part of Celebration of 250th Anniversary of Composers' Birth
Berlin Staatskapelle a historical treasure - Philadelphia Inquirer

Berlin Staatskapelle a historical treasure
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - 20 hours ago
... But from the first chords of Mozart's Symphony No. 39, you knew you were hearing living history at least, and more important, the best longtime orchestral ...
Review: Memorable evening for Mozart aficionados Naples Daily News (subscription)
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Defending NBC's The Office :
Slate - Steve Carell, John Krasinksi, and Rainn Wilson from the American version of The Office Americans love to fix what ain't broke so that they can avoid repairing that which is in desperate need, like the rickety old network sitcom. We have a history of ...
La Scala Revives Mozart Production (San Francisco Chronicle)
It's not just Mozart who's celebrating a big anniversary, 250 years after his birth. La Scala, Italy's most renowned opera house, is marking the 25th anniversary of a classic production of one of his best-loved works, "Le Nozze di Figaro." The staging...
Grammy winner Roberta Flack to play Ridgefield - Danbury News Times


Danbury News Times
Grammy winner Roberta Flack to play Ridgefield
Danbury News Times, CT - 15 hours ago
... be enough to define lesser artists, Flack, who recently released her greatest hits album, "The Very Best of Roberta ... "If I found somebody who was a Mozart at 5 ...

Best of Mozart - Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts


Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts
International Herald Tribune - Two hundred and fifty years old and still considered a wunderkind: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, probably the most beloved classical composer in the Western world, is the birthday boy of 2006, and he will be honored around the globe. Mozart was himself a

Remembering Amadeus
Jerusalem Post - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791) was not only famous in his own lifetime but remains one of the most recognizable musical names of the 21st century. Although he passed away at the young age of 35, his prodigious output

Slovakia pays tribute to genius of Mozart
Slovak Spectator - ON THE DAY of his birth, January 27, Austria celebrated the musical genius, Wofgang Amadeus Mozart, in grand style. Salzburg and Vienna, the cities most closely associated with the composer, reverberated to the sound of the maestro's works in opera

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Best of Mozart - Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts


Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts
International Herald Tribune - Two hundred and fifty years old and still considered a wunderkind: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, probably the most beloved classical composer in the Western world, is the birthday boy of 2006, and he will be honored around the globe. Mozart was himself a

Slovakia pays tribute to genius of Mozart
Slovak Spectator - ON THE DAY of his birth, January 27, Austria celebrated the musical genius, Wofgang Amadeus Mozart, in grand style. Salzburg and Vienna, the cities most closely associated with the composer, reverberated to the sound of the maestro's works in opera

Best of Mozart - Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts


Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts
International Herald Tribune - Two hundred and fifty years old and still considered a wunderkind: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, probably the most beloved classical composer in the Western world, is the birthday boy of 2006, and he will be honored around the globe. Mozart was himself a

Slovakia pays tribute to genius of Mozart
Slovak Spectator - ON THE DAY of his birth, January 27, Austria celebrated the musical genius, Wofgang Amadeus Mozart, in grand style. Salzburg and Vienna, the cities most closely associated with the composer, reverberated to the sound of the maestro's works in opera

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Best of Mozart - Gary's Guide - Vienna on my mind (Expatica)



Gary's Guide - Vienna on my mind (Expatica)
Captivated by the genius of Mozart, yearning for beauty and astonished by the power of theatre, Gary Hills gives his pick of the best events in Brussels this month.
Oscar Night at the Symphony - Lynnwood Journal Newspapers

Oscar Night at the Symphony
Lynnwood Journal Newspapers, WA - 2 hours ago
... Oscar-winning movies and picked the ones with the best music," he ... Music, celebrating the film's 40th anniversary, Amadeus, celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday ...

Spotlight: Soprano Mary Somerville
Bellingham Herald - Next performance: 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, at First Congregational Church, with the Whatcom Chorale Sinfonia. Age: 54. Early years: Grew up in Towson, Md., graduated from Dickinson College with a double major in music and religion, moved to ...
Nobody does Mozart better (Pioneer Press)
Amid the local celebrations of Mozart's 250th birthday last weekend, there was a glaring absence: hearing the best Mozart orchestra in the Twin Cities, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, perform one of his symphonies.
METROPOLITAN OPERA - New Yorker

METROPOLITAN OPERA
New Yorker, United States - Feb 6, 2006
... pianists conducts and performs with his orchestra in the first of three Mozart tributes the ... 2: Nakamura is joined by a clutch of New York s best new-music ...

Democracy in a Cartoon
AINA - Posted GMT 2-6-2006 16:45:30 Send to Printer Printer Friendly Email This Link Reader Comments The great British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, "Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion ...

Best of Mozart - Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts


Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts
International Herald Tribune - Two hundred and fifty years old and still considered a wunderkind: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, probably the most beloved classical composer in the Western world, is the birthday boy of 2006, and he will be honored around the globe. Mozart was himself a

Monday, February 06, 2006

Best of Mozart - Nobody does Mozart better (Pioneer Press)



Nobody does Mozart better (Pioneer Press)
Amid the local celebrations of Mozart's 250th birthday last weekend, there was a glaring absence: hearing the best Mozart orchestra in the Twin Cities, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, perform one of his symphonies.
Carey tale - Edmonton Sun

Carey tale
Edmonton Sun, Canada - Feb 5, 2006
... My favourite is best remixed recording, non-classical - is it really necessary to include "non-classical?" Did Moby remix any Mozart lately? ...


Georgia Straight - A Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presentation. At the Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, January 29 There s an old one-liner that goes, Why, when I was
Ensemble delights and dazzles (Louisville Courier-Journal)
The wonderful thing about attending lots of concerts is the opportunity to discover works you scarcely knew existed, and with the best of them, to wonder how you ever got along without them for so long.
Bruckner's Ninth for Strathmore's First: The BSO's Perfect Gift - Washington Post


Washington Post
Bruckner's Ninth for Strathmore's First: The BSO's Perfect Gift
Washington Post, United States - 12 hours ago
... adjective that better sums up the mixture of tenderness, attention to detail, and songful unity that typifies its best performances. ... Mozart's Horn Concerto No. ...

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Best of Mozart - Mozart would have applauded pianist (Miami Herald)



Mozart would have applauded pianist (Miami Herald)
The major cause for celebration at the New World Symphony's commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth on Saturday night at the Lincoln Theater was an extraordinary performance by Italian pianist Benedetto Lupo of one of the Salzburg master's most popular works, the Piano Concerto No.21 in C Major. Lupo, the bronze medal winner of the 1989 Van Cliburn Competition, is a musician of
Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts - International Herald Tribune

Mozart, alive and well at 250, revisits his European haunts
International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 30, 2006
... But there will be plenty of traditional Mozart performances as well, starting with a series of 30 "Best of Mozart" concerts on weekends from February to ...

Excavators of the soul
Morning Call - They have many names: surrealist, neo-romantic, magic realist. They make fantastic art from epidemics: World War II, the threat of atomic/nuclear Armageddon, AIDS. They express their own problems a Nazi father, sexual confusion, a lover's suicide ...
Mozart would have applauded pianist (Miami Herald)
The major cause for celebration at the New World Symphony's commemoration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth on Saturday night at the Lincoln Theater was an extraordinary performance by Italian pianist Benedetto Lupo of one of the Salzburg master's most popular works, the Piano Concerto No.21 in C Major. Lupo, the bronze medal winner of the 1989 Van Cliburn Competition, is a musician of
Music with altitude in Switzerland - The Sunday Times

Music with altitude in Switzerland
The Sunday Times, UK - 19 hours ago
... business, and our execrable singing was a travesty of Mozart, surpassed in ... magnificent Alpine music festivals, but Lucerne seems to have the best of everything ...


Jackson Clarion-Ledger - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill stars Jackson actress Gloria Jackson Winters as the legendary Billie Holiday. Interlaced with more than a dozen songs, the almost one-woman show draws a dramatic portrait of the troubled artist late in her career ...