I'm a bright enough guy, but all the great books I'll ever read I read in college and graduate school, and my musical tastes are straight down the middle: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Mostly Mozart, the Brandenburgs, a little cool jazz, a few show tunes.
John Malkovich frolics to the music of Mozart in "The Giacomo Variations, " a playful, frothy production which was envisioned as "a chamber opera play" by its creators.
"I think that ... the Bach manuscript or the changes that Mozart made in the score or the markings absolutely unknown and authentic on Brahms' Opus 118 are going to inspire performers, are going to inspire a generation of students here, " Kovner said.
But whether discussing the structure of a Mozart finale or the problem of performing Wagner to a Jewish audience, Mr Barenboim proves a wonderfully compelling maestro.
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Among the chamber music works that feature the French horn, the two best known and best loved are undoubtedly the Mozart Horn Quintet (1782) and the Brahms Horn Trio (trio for horn, violin, and piano, 1865).
Michael Grandage's "Le Nozze di Figaro" is Glyndebourne's seventh production of the Mozart opera with which it opened in 1934, and the best of the many of those I've seen.
Two well-heeled Japanese housewives murmur over their cups of coffee, while Mozart plays in the background.
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Carver says Feynman was the Mozart of physics, a gifted intuitive, one in a billion.
After all, he says, classical musicians like Mozart were basically the rock stars of their day.
' We could find no recording of Gyorgy Sandor playing the Mozart C major sonata.
Finding rhapsodic melodrama in high art, Akerman pulls Mozart out of the opera house and into the bedroom for an arch a-cappella duet for separated lovers.
More through default than design, the renditions of Mozart, Massenet, and Berlioz must do the expressive work usually accomplished by imagery, narrative, and characterization.
Nominees for the arts and culture award included the Ulster Orchestra and the west Belfast Feile an Phobail for the performance of Mozart's Requiem in Clonard Monastery to mark the centenary of the historic church.
But they add that "the known facts of Mozart's fatal illness, including the features of oedema, malaise and back pain, seem compatible with this diagnosis".
The picture was identified as a Mozart portrait when an expert on the composer used computer analysis to compare it with another painted 13 years earlier.
"We've played a Mozart piano concerto where the soloist literally skipped the entire development, " Mr. Bauch says.
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Klass pointed out that Mozart wrote pieces for the popular audience, and that it was important to stress he was not elitist - although he is now seen that way.
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After performing a full program of Bach, Handel and Mozart, he asked the audience to choose any one of Beethoven's sonatas for him to play as an encore, by heart.
The complete Mozart piano concertos played by Murray Perahia?
"I'd already done the Matt Busby sculpture for Manchester United some 12-15 years ago, " said Jackson, who in his role as royal sculptor has produced works ranging from the archangel Gabriel and Constantine the Great to the young Mozart.
At first she attributed this to the range of high harmonics used by Mozart, but her later research, which manipulated the frequency levels of various compositions, showed that frequencies alone were not responsible for this physiological response.
Though please remember that even the greatest musicians and composers who ever lived, Mozart and Bach, had to compromise with the established political and financial order.
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Luis was a sensitive guy (he never hit her), and cultured (he was, I believe, one of the two million Spaniards who bought the complete works of Mozart in installments), and patient, too (he listened, he listened to her every night and on the weekends).
New material will be performed alongside the traditional repertoire from the likes of Mozart and Puccini.
"Mr Seiller noticed there were strong similarities between the subject of the portrait and Mozart, " he told Berlin's BZ newspaper.
With Amadeus, dramatist Peter Shaffer was having fun with history and biography, and his play doubtless increased the popularity of Mozart in our times.
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One home in the 1st District, Mozarthaus, is now a museum that looks at Vienna in the time of Mozart and includes a recreation of his apartments.
And when I asked if he might play some Mozart to finish our session, he jumped at the chance, saying "Yes, because Chopin loved Mozart!"
You could probably get the complete works of Mozart or Beethoven as downloads for that money.
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