Best of Mozart

REVIEW / Labadie's Mozart both nimble and full-bodied (San Francisco Chronicle)
It isn't every conductor who can conduct Mozart's music with all the fleet dexterity of the period-instrument crowd while maintaining the tonal richness of the modern orchestra. Bernard Labadie, who led the San Francisco Symphony in a delectable all-Mozart...
Coming Up: Music - Salt Lake Tribune

Coming Up: Music Salt Lake Tribune, United States - 3 hours ago ... Mo' Mozart: The Orchestra and Chorus of Sandy City will commemorate Mozart's 250th birthday with performances of one of the composer's best-known sacred works ...

What's new for 2006-2007 at the Clemens Center
Star-Gazette - * Shorter 2006-2007 season: The Clemens Center will shut down months early, closing March 4, 2007, and likely remaining closed until Jan. 1, 2008. The dates are subject to change. Why the respite? A growing number of touring companies are requiring ...
In the end, Mozart's music shines (San Jose Mercury News)
In his 250th birthday year, Mozart has been tossed into too many concert programs as the obligatory bonbon. But the Music@Menlo chamber music festival, coming back this summer for its fourth season, will look at Mozart in a very different way: as universal source of inspiration and even redemption, as music to which one returns in order to be restored.
Scottish Opera plays to its strengths, but too safe - Scotland on Sunday

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Scottish Opera plays to its strengths, but too safe Scotland on Sunday, UK - 9 hours ago ... staging of a high-profile reinterpretation in the year of Mozart's anniversary. ... have been used to in previous productions, from Matthew Best's Commendatore to ... THE FALL AND RISE Sunday Herald All the world s his stage Financial Times Don Giovanni The Sunday Times all 6 related

North County Community News briefs: Burrito challenge winner announced
North County Times - FALLBROOK ---- Jesus Perez was the overall winner in the recent burrito challenge sponsored by La Caseta restaurant in connection with the recent avocado festival. He consumed a 4-pound Big Del Burrito in 4 minutes, 46 seconds. Twenty-two diners ...

May's Best Classical Concerts (Washington Post)
May ranks right up there with October as one of the most pleasant months in Washington. Spring is fully here, the Cherry Blossom tourists have thinned out (as, alas, have the blooms), and there are still plenty of excellent concerts taking place before the summer slump.
Celebrating Mozart's birthday in culinary fashion - Xinhua

Celebrating Mozart's birthday in culinary fashion Xinhua, China - 16 hours ago ... a poem entitled "Glueckwunsch beim Punsch" (Best Wishes with Punch) for Nannerl's birthday. Having spent 10 years of his life on the road, Mozart tasted dishes ...

Dazzling Don Giovanni' a 250th birthday celebration for Mozart
Milpitas Post - Everyone who goes to concerts or operas this year knows that Mozart is getting his deserved homage from musicians and singers everywhere in the world. Opera San Jose's birthday party for Wolfgang is giving audiences an opportunity to experience his ...
`Mozart to Mao' concert blends Chinese, western classical elements (San Jose Mercury News)
One of the amazing cultural events of our time is the reverse migration of European classical music from China to the West. Having taken root in China over the course of centuries, it now is ping-ponging back in the work of Chinese performers and composers, carrying a unique blend of sensibilities.

Opera Colorado pulls off tricky "Seraglio" with wit, imagination (Denver Post)
"The Abduction From the Seraglio" is notorious for being all but impossible to stage successfully, but you wouldn't know it from Opera Colorado's clever, wonderfully entertaining new production of the 1782 comedy by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As Saturday's opening performance in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House made clear, stage director
A wiser Lang Lang retains his charm, virtuosity - Chicago Sun-Times

A wiser Lang Lang retains his charm, virtuosity Chicago Sun-Times, United States - May 2, 2006 ... hang on to some of the best of them -- his emotional involvement in the music, his obvious delight in his own prowess. The program of Mozart, Chopin, Schumann ...

Actors caught morphing into roles
Albuquerque Tribune - This is just one of the directions photographer Howard Schatz fired at his subjects for his new book, "In Character: Actors Acting," in which 100 stars of stage and screen are shown in close-ups instantly morphing into various roles. Feigning the ...
In the end, Mozart's music shines (San Jose Mercury News)
In his 250th birthday year, Mozart has been tossed into too many concert programs as the obligatory bonbon. But the Music@Menlo chamber music festival, coming back this summer for its fourth season, will look at Mozart in a very different way: as universal source of inspiration and even redemption, as music to which one returns in order to be restored.
Music fest runs 4 nights - Virginia Gazette

Music fest runs 4 nights Virginia Gazette, VA - 17 hours ago ... Raines is probably best known for his role as Alan Spaulding on ... and Schub presenting Vivaldi's signature, The Four Seasons. Mozart's Piano Concerto in ...

See & Do (Creative Loafing Charlotte)
No, it isn't Amadeus or Beaumarchais, but Theatre Charlotte is almost celebrating Mozart's 250th with Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
A roundup of cultural highlights - Signandsight.com

A roundup of cultural highlights Signandsight.com, Germany - 8 hours ago ... The official exhibition in celebration of the Mozart year in the Albertina in Vienna ... "Theatertreffen" A huge festival which premieres the "ten best" new plays ...

Music for a not quite classical crowd
Boston Globe - This week at Symphony Hall, the BSO plays Mozart and Stravinsky. At Jordan Hall, Boston Baroque offers Beethoven. And at a Davis Square bookstore, musicians perform the works of Miller, Stack, McLaughlin, Torras, Cucchiara, and Miljkovic. In other ...
Opera Colorado pulls off tricky "Seraglio" with wit, imagination (Denver Post)
"The Abduction From the Seraglio" is notorious for being all but impossible to stage successfully, but you wouldn't know it from Opera Colorado's clever, wonderfully entertaining new production of the 1782 comedy by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As Saturday's opening performance in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House made clear, stage director
'Mozart to Mao' concert blends Chinese, western classical elements - San Jose Mercury News

'Mozart to Mao' concert blends Chinese, western classical elements San Jose Mercury News, USA - May 2, 2006 ... Of the two poems performed Saturday, ``Snow,'' from 1936, was best. ... That was left to Yin, whose crisply articulate performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. ...