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 ...

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - Two Kindred Spirits Celebrate Shostakovich (The New York Sun)



Two Kindred Spirits Celebrate Shostakovich (The New York Sun)
Tomorrow night, the New York Philharmonic will begin a four-concert subscription series of particular interest. What's so interesting? Mstislav Rostropovich will be on the podium, and Maxim Vengerov will be the soloist. They will perform music of Shostakovich: the Violin Concerto No. 1 and the Symphony No. 10. Mr. Rostropovich is the best cellist in history, and no mean conductor. Next year we
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 ...

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 ...
Two Kindred Spirits Celebrate Shostakovich (The New York Sun)
Tomorrow night, the New York Philharmonic will begin a four-concert subscription series of particular interest. What's so interesting? Mstislav Rostropovich will be on the podium, and Maxim Vengerov will be the soloist. They will perform music of Shostakovich: the Violin Concerto No. 1 and the Symphony No. 10. Mr. Rostropovich is the best cellist in history, and no mean conductor. Next year we
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. ...

Snapshot: Lang Lang pounds the piano
WHAS 11 - For me, Bach's "Aria With Various Variations" is the single greatest work of music ever. I own more than 50 recordings of all sorts of versions, from piano to organ to string trio. It was written for a harpsichord with two keyboards, though, and ...

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Mozart Violin Concertos - Review: Spirited soloists share the spotlight at Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)



Review: Spirited soloists share the spotlight at Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
The Minnesota Orchestra's ongoing Centennial Commission series has produced some worthy pieces over the years, and a few less worthy. The latest, premiered Friday night at Orchestra Hall, the Sinfonia Concertante for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, Violin and Cello by Kevin Puts, definitely falls into the worthy category. Puts' Sinfonia draws its form from the concerto grosso of the 18th century, where a
On-fire Fruhbeck draws brilliance from BSO - Boston Herald

On-fire Fruhbeck draws brilliance from BSO
Boston Herald, United States - Apr 7, 2006
... While Mozart s violin concertos do not attain the weight that his late piano concertos do, the Fifth is still a bold work from a composer who knew exactly ...

Published: April 14, 2006
New York Times - We might begin with the ending, also known as the Requiem. No hope for background music here, especially with John Eliot Gardiner at the helm of a gutsy period-instrument band. The disc boasts a wonderful quartet of vocal soloists and the Monteverdi ...
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.
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. ...