Saturday, March 18, 2006

Mozart Music - St. Bart's Offers Mozart for Holy Week (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)



St. Bart's Offers Mozart for Holy Week (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, Great Music at St. Bartholomew's Church offers a Holy Week performance of Mass in C Minor, a trio of lectures and more.
"Mozart meets India" project launched - Hindu

"Mozart meets India" project launched
Hindu, India - 8 hours ago
... a Tamil Nadu-based non-profit organisation, today announced another project "Mozart Meets India", a confluence of western classical and carnatic music. ...
Tamil Nadu-based `Maiyam' launches 'Mozart meets India' NewKerala.com
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The past helps shape his present
Los Angeles Times - For a choreographer in a country whose dance scene is fiercely focused on the new and experimental, Thierry Malandain is unusually fascinated by the past. The 46-year-old French choreographer seems engaged in an ongoing dialogue with the history of ...
Detroit Free Press Mark Stryker Music Column: MARK STRYKER: Get to Know Shostakovich and His Music (RedNova)
By Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press Mar. 17--Hey, give the Russian some love. So far, the classical music world in 2006 has been practically all-Mozart all the time. That's what happens when the most beloved composer of all time turns 250 years old.
Political Circus - The Moscow Times

Political Circus
The Moscow Times, Russia - Mar 16, 2006
... stage, he has come up with a reading that differs radically from the norm but, when carefully considered, seems to find support both in Mozart's music and in ...

The past helps shape his present
Los Angeles Times - For a choreographer in a country whose dance scene is fiercely focused on the new and experimental, Thierry Malandain is unusually fascinated by the past. The 46-year-old French choreographer seems engaged in an ongoing dialogue with the history of ...

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Mozart Music - The big day arrives: Students start WASL


The big day arrives: Students start WASL
Seattle Times - David Vinson welcomed sophomores to the first morning of WASL testing with Mozart music, water bottles, cookies and sharp No. 2 pencils. Most of them arrived a little early at Federal Way High School to make sure they were on time for the 10th-grade

Mozart Music - Hip-hop meets Mozart (Independent)



Hip-hop meets Mozart (Independent)
It's a common assumption that teenagers and classical music don't mix - but what if classical composers were given a remix? Glyndebourne Education, in a European co-production with Finnish National Opera, has made the bold move of celebrating Wolfgang Mozart's 250th birthday with a hip-hop-inspired adaptation of his opera Cos fan tutte, dubbed School 4 Lovers - a Hip H'Opera.
Vienna Opera Ball on Mozart music - Bucharest Daily News

Vienna Opera Ball on Mozart music
Bucharest Daily News, Romania - Feb 26, 2006
... Razvan Ungureanu. The ball was dominated by Mozart's music, as the world celebrates 250 years since the composer's birth. The 4,600 ...

The big day arrives: Students start WASL
Seattle Times - David Vinson welcomed sophomores to the first morning of WASL testing with Mozart music, water bottles, cookies and sharp No. 2 pencils. Most of them arrived a little early at Federal Way High School to make sure they were on time for the 10th-grade ...
Secret trove of music donated to Juilliard (San Jose Mercury News)
Happy birthday, Juilliard School. The conservatory, which is celebrating its 100th year, has something more to cheer about. It has just received a priceless trove of manuscripts of works by such immortal composers as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, among many others.
Pianist Makes a Name As a Video Game Virtuoso - Newhouse News Service (NNS)


Newhouse News Service (NNS)
Pianist Makes a Name As a Video Game Virtuoso
Newhouse News Service (NNS) - 2 hours ago
... teen flick, Martin Leung would be the bad boy who gets booted out of music school for playing the themes to "Super Mario" and "Halo" instead of Mozart and Haydn ...
Video game virtuoso Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Mozart Music - Students start the WASL


Students start the WASL
Seattle Times - Katrina Gears, a sophomore at Mountlake Terrace High School, reads the instructions Monday before beginning the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL), which this year's 10th-graders must pass in order to graduate. Some 85,000 sophomores