Thursday, March 23, 2006

Mozart Music - CLASSICAL MUSIC (Akron Beacon Journal)



CLASSICAL MUSIC (Akron Beacon Journal)
Canton Symphony Orchestra -- 1 p.m. today, 8 p.m. Friday, Cable Recital Hall, Cultural Center for the Arts, 1001 Market Ave. N., Canton. Program includes Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, Shostakovich's Concerto for Piano No. 1. Featuring Christina Dahl, piano. $16; seniors and students, $13. 330-452-2094.
Mozart drives off nuisance youths - BBC News


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Mozart drives off nuisance youths
BBC News, UK - 8 hours ago
Mozart's music is being brought to a new wave of listeners in the 250th anniversary year of his birth, but it is not intended to be inspirational. ...

Versatility defines Nickel Creek's Thile
Evansville Courier-Press - Chris Thile suspended his search for a cup of chicory and a beignet. Clearly distracted from the conversation on his cell phone, he loudly bemoaned the cranky calliope echoing on his New Orleans street. "I don't think I have the power to make it stop ...
Classical lovers celebrate Mozart through his music (Southern Illinoisan)
CARBONDALE - Under the vaulted ceiling of the Unitarian Fellowship Hall Sunday, the sounds of chamber music emanated from violins, violas, cellos and oboes.
Lang Lang Album Debuts at Number Two on Billboard Chart - PlaybillArts

Lang Lang Album Debuts at Number Two on Billboard Chart
PlaybillArts, NY - 59 minutes ago
Lang Lang's Memory, a collection of music linked to the pianist's childhood ... the 23-year-old star's first studio recording, includes sonatas by Mozart and Chopin ...
Young Pianists & Wagner Make Spring Musical New York Sun
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EVENT: Guild presents 'The Magic of Mozart'
Herald-Dispatch - HUNTINGTON -- Hallmark never envisioned a "Belated Birthday" card this past due. On Saturday, the Musical Arts Guild will celebrate the 250th birthday of the child prodigy turned master composer -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- in a concert featuring ...

Tuesday, March 21, 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

By whom the bell tolls?
California Aggie - Tina Cook of Campus Unions Operations uses the MU's carillon machine on Tuesday afternoon. The bell tones have been ringing from the building since 1955, stopping briefly in the late '90s during seismic renovations. "A bell's not a bell 'til you ring

Monday, March 20, 2006

Mozart Music - Debut for hip-hop Mozart (BBC News)



Debut for hip-hop Mozart (BBC News)
Opera venue Glyndebourne is looking to bring Mozart to a young audience with a hip-hop version of Cosi fan tutte.
This 'Magic Flute' is music to children's ears - Richmond Times Dispatch

This 'Magic Flute' is music to children's ears
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - Mar 18, 2006
... It also dispenses with Mozart's music, substituting a jovial, pop-inflected score by Richmond composer Paul Deiss, who contributed the book and lyrics, too. ...

Eine Kleine Mozart-Musik
SDS Universe - San Diego State University's Center for Visual and Performing Arts, in conjunction with Mainly Mozart, presents a three-part lecture series, called "Mozart His Work and Time," in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth ...
Minnesota Orchestra plays Mozart, Kernis and Sibelius (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
We owe a lot to the early-music movement of recent decades. It has made us think about how performance styles change and probably has made us listen differently, perhaps even more attentively, to composers all the way from Bach to Mozart and Beethoven. Occasionally, however, a work shows up on a program that seems to profit less from a concern for historical accuracy in performance than from an
Singing the praises of Mozart's music - Baltimore Sun

Singing the praises of Mozart's music
Baltimore Sun, United States - Mar 17, 2006
... is the final event in a six-week city arts celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday ... Under the baton of Annapolis Opera music director Ronald J. Gretz, the singers ...

Sunday, March 19, 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 music to leave one breathless - Toronto Star

Mozart music to leave one breathless
Toronto Star, Canada - Mar 16, 2006
... revered. Cyprien Katsaris returns for a solo program of Mozart and Mozart-related piano works for Music Toronto on Tuesday night.
Youth Orchestra plays March 19 Parksville Qualicum News
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Haupt starts series
Buffalo News - Charles Haupt is launching a concert series called "A Musical Feast," which will include performances by local artists and other performers he has enjoyed working with over the years. He plans to schedule three or four concerts a season. The first ...
Area performers invoke Mozart to benefit youths (Contra Costa Times)
Orphans Mass, a rarely performed grand Mass composed in 1768 by 12-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, will be presented at two performances this weekend in the East Bay to benefit the Missing Children Project, which works to locate children abducted by the military in El Salvador.
The Mozarts We Don't Know - New York Times

The Mozarts We Don't Know
New York Times, United States - Mar 11, 2006
... Joseph's successor, Leopold II, was preoccupied with international and political problems, and though Mozart's music did not disappear from court functions ...

Finding magic in the opera
News Register - Students are entranced by Prince Tamino (Eric Stinson) and other characters in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" during an assembly at Wascher Elementary School. The prince, in turn, is entranced by the photo of his bride-to-be that he's holding. A handsome ...