De la A a la Z con Mozart y la musica/From A to Z with Mozart and the Music (Spanish Edition)
The Taruskin Challenge (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
A long time ago in a land far, far away… When Mozart wrote music, he never made a mistake – it was as if he was taking dictation from God. Sensing his pending death, he composed a Requiem Mass for himself. Such are the lives of the great composers. Legends like these are nothing new to music. [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The ensemble’s program of works by Haydn and Mozart on Wednesday at the New York Society for Ethical Culture was informed, earnest and lively.
The Truth About Lies (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
If you were asked to think of a prodigy, who would jump to mind? I would suggest that that list would be topped by Mozart . Wee Wölfi began to play the harpsichord when he was 3. By 5 he was performing publicly and had begun composing. But were these early pieces any good? Well, good enough at the time but the earliest work by him that is still performed today is Exsultate, Jubilate K 165, written...
The Arts Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Conductor Ami Porat leads Orange County’s Mozart Classical Orchestra, a group that specializes in the music of Wolfgang and his lesser known friends, into its 25th season. I spoke with him the other day about his plans for the season, his unusual programming, and the challenges a small ensemble such as his faces in the down [...]
oboeinsight (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
(Women, you can ignore this one.) Seriously … this is from a Men’s mag. Where men learn to be better men. Whew. Here’s the list: 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 2. Johann Sebastian Bach, The Goldberg Variations 3. Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons 4. Georges Bizet, Carmen 5. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) 6. George Frederic Handel, Messiah 7. Igor...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Normalcy returned to the Metropolitan Opera with a charming second-night revival of Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro," one night after a new production of Puccini's "Tosca" left a significant segment of the audience booing one of the company's biggest failures in decades.
San Francisco Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Soprano Mary Dunleavy to star as “Constanze” Special Family Pricing for October 17 and 23 Performances By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), opens tonight at the War Memorial Opera House. The work will have six subsequent performances concluding...
Violinist.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
By geoffrey terry: Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Sonata for piano and violinNo. 35 in A, K526 (1787) Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2 (1801/02) Recorded live in the Fairfield Halls Croydon. c.1972 Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 (1888) Recorded at Campoli's Southgate home, c.1973 Alfredo Campoli (violin) Peter Katin...
Michelle Styles: (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
My CP , Donna Alward has just read Outliers which she says is very good. It is one of the recent crop of books that asks what is talent and does talent have to be honed. The answer tends to be yes and it takes many hours. The question for most people is do they want to spend the time and are they honing the right skills. There remains a persistent story, probably enhanced by the film Amadeus that Mozart...
Clef Notes (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
The old slander that Antonio Salieri, jealous of Mozart's talent, poisoned his younger rival in Vienna pretty much died away ages ago, except for the brief flurry of renewed interest in the case caused by the hit play/movie Amadeus. Still,...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Two recently published books with some Brontë content: Don't Know Much About Literature What You Need to Know but Never Learned About Great Books and Authors By Kenneth C. Davis ISBN: 9780061719806 ISBN10: 0061719803 Harper Paperbacks On Sale: 7/28/2009 From Homer to Harry Potter, from Chaucer to Charlotte's Web, a compelling compendium of history's most influential literary works and writers....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
A deep-seated resistance to Mozart would not seem to augur well for a career having anything to do with classical music.
Intermezzo (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Prom 32: Britten Sinfonia / Ludovic Morlot / Katia and Marielle Labèque / Philip Moore and Simon Crawford-Phillips / Lidija and Sanja Bizjak - Royal Albert Hall, 9 August 2009 the world's best-behaved queue? Fauré, orch. Rabaud Dolly (suite) Mozart...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Louis Langrée conducted the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the pianist Stefan Vladar in a spirited reading of Haydn’s lithe Piano Concerto in D.
Civic Center (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
For all the mean things that people in San Francisco say about the Marina District, there is no denying that the neighborhood is just plain beautiful, and the refurbished military base Fort Mason on its eastern end is a great community center for all types of events. The large pier warehouses are host to theaters, conventions, museums, restaurants, and parties. I was visiting on Wednesday evening for...
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