Mozart's Birthday

Concerto of creative confections for Mozart's birthday
San Jose Mercury News - VIENNA, Austria - It's a symphony of sweets, a cantata of chocolates, a fugue of fantastic desserts on display at Vienna's ornate Hofburg Palace. The confectioner's creations of Mozart motifs are part of the yearlong 250th birthday celebrations for

Company BBC really knows how to swing
Georgia Straight - An audience whooping for a dancer is not a sound often heard in the world of contemporary ballet. But that s just what the Queen E. patrons were doing for Chengxin Wei, as he put extra jump into jump-and-jive and boogie-woogied his butt off in Paul

Hooray for Mozart
Star-Banner - In honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Central Florida Symphony Orchestra has planned a special concert for Saturday and Sunday. The third of the subscription concerts will feature "Almost Amadeus," a tribute

Music Critics Picks/New Music
Georgia Straight - Vancouver s diverse population is reflected in an appropriately eclectic spring season, as local devotees of new music get to sample everything from Estonian choirs to that underappreciated Korean zither, the kayagum not to mention three nights

Mozart didn't buy Telstra
Sidney Morning Herald - NOTHING takes your mind off being the Minister for Telstra better than a night at the opera. And so it was for the Honorable Helen Coonan, who joined the official party last night for the opening of Opera Australia's The Magic Flute . Senator Coonan