Thursday, May 04, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - Norwegian violinist scales the heights (The Cincinnati Post)



Norwegian violinist scales the heights (The Cincinnati Post)
Not many people have fiddled atop the Great Pyramid. One of them was 19th-century Norwegian violinist Ole Bull (1810-80). Another is Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud, who will make his debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Music Hall.
Pianist Hough to close MSO season - The Capital Times

Pianist Hough to close MSO season
The Capital Times, WI - May 3, 2006
... He's the only French composer writing piano concertos in the ... music pieces by Beethoven and Mozart that had ... two wonderful cello sonatas, two violin sonatas, and ...

Sweet sexagenarian
Prague Post - Light the candles and raise your champagne glasses, it's an anniversary for Prague Spring 60 years since Rafael Kubel k led the Czech Philharmonic in the first-ever concert of what has become one of the world's most prestigious classical music ...
Spotlight: The Yundi Li-Lang Lang 'Rivalry'; Cover Girl Anna Netrebko; a Classical Celebrity Encounter (Playbill Arts)
What the stars are up to onstage and off.
Mozart s music in revolutionary times - Socialist Worker Online

Mozart s music in revolutionary times
Socialist Worker Online, IL - Apr 11, 2006
... A series of five violin concertos written in 1775, when Mozart was 19, for example, marked the first use of a solo instrument leading an orchestra. ...

What do you think?
Wisconsin State Journal - Cellist Parry Karp will perform Saint-Saens' Sonata No. 2 in F Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 123, on "Sunday Live From the Chazen." Other works on the program are Laurence Sherr's "Elegy and Vision for Solo Cello" and Chopin's Sonata in G Minor for ...

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - Official pops students' bubbles (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)



Official pops students' bubbles (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)
A sticky situation has come to an end. This week, some 20,000 students throughout Muscogee County are taking the Criterion Referenced Competency Test -- something they and teachers say is akin to being stuck in the ear with a No. 2 pencil.
Strung Together Violin Binds Chinese Masters, Students Across the ... - International News Service

Strung Together Violin Binds Chinese Masters, Students Across the ...
International News Service, Australia - 19 hours ago
... Building, Liu coaches Malmquist to master concertos, sonatas and ... To play the violin - an instrument performed in royal European courts by Mozart, Bach and ...

Getting Fresh With Mozart
Seattle Weekly - Man of the moment. It's Mozart's 250th birthday, and almost as prevalent as concerts of his music are complaints by critics that everyone plays Mozart all the time anyway. How do you keep standard repertory fresh and bring in audiences in such a ...
University Theatre Closes Season with 'The Marriage of Figaro' (Kansas City InfoZine)
The opera production celebrates the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth and is the final event in WAM Fest, a variety of events and activities held this spring to celebrate the life, times and music of the great composer.
Official pops students' bubbles - Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Official pops students' bubbles
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - Apr 20, 2006
... And in yet another school, elementary teachers were playing Mozart symphonies and violin concertos 30 minutes before the test since research has shown that ...

The Salisbury Post
Salisbury Post - Carolina Baroque concluded its 18th season April 7 with "Telemann Concertos Plus Mozart," presented in the Chapel of St. John's Lutheran Church. As in their previous concert, the group stretched beyond the boundaries of the Baroque period to include ...