Mozart's Birthday

Mozart mania spreads to chef's menus
Independent Online - Vienna - In a year celebrating his 250th birthday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has taken over concert halls, souvenir shops and now even the kitchen. While the musical genius has long been used to market the popular Austrian chocolate known as

Let mind run barefoot
Orlando Sentinel - A pair of tributes to our national pastime, a birthday card to a great composer, along with some nonsense rhymes and works that celebrate the power of language highlight our choices for young readers in April. Double-header Take Me Out to the Ball

Life's full measure
WFAA - If Dorothea Kelley isn't the world's oldest arts administrator, she's right up there. At age 100 as of today, she remains artistic director of the Dallas Chamber Music Society, which she helped start 51 years ago. And retirement isn't in her plans

Choral Society raises voices for anniversary
Island Packet Online - The Hilton Head Choral Society's "Musical Masterworks -- Music from Vienna" concert last weekend was packed with goodies from the Imperial City -- the crown jewel of music's Classical period -- including a 250th birthday tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus

Dance companies bloom
Columbian - A year ago at this time, Columbia Dance was preparing for its spring show in a rented Heights strip mall, with several buckets and rags placed strategically around the studio to catch the rainwater dripping through the leaky roof. Washington State