If the avant-garde was still heard in the concert hall, the programme would be sugared with Mozart and Beethoven.
Because he stargazes for as long as eight hours at a time--from after sundown until sunup--he also has installed a space heater, a minifridge stocked with Diet Coke and a CD player that serenades him with Mozart string quartets.
As for intellectual advantages, parents soak their babies in Mozart with dubious effect, put a toy computer in the crib, elbow their way into the best preschools to speed them on their path to Harvard.
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.
Colin Davis got his big break in 1959 when Otto Klemperer fell ill and he took his place at the Royal Festival Hall to conduct a concert performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Joan Sutherland.
Through artistic performance involving music, sculpture and dance, supported by pyrotechnics, the audience was invited to a worldwide voyage to India with an Indian dance workshop and to Europe with masterfully interpretations of Verdi, Rossini and Mozart, played by a duet Ali and Stephanie Balthazard Lachaise.
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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He told me how, some years ago, in different encounters, one prominent soloist told him to give up on Mozart and another that he was hopeless with Beethoven.
Each of the five works in repertory is accompanied, in some measure, by the Orion String Quartet, which performs Mozart, Mendelessohn, Ravel and Schubert with winning expertise, despite being intruded on, at random moments, by the kinds of shtick Mr. Jones favors.
On those scores it is not different from discredited autism therapies such as chelation, listening to Mozart, gluten-free diets and swimming with dolphins.
From Mariah Carey to Mozart, these headphones are tuned to deliver natural thumping bass with crystal clear mid highs that enhance any musical experience.
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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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.
Think of John Cage, with his four-hour computer-aided blizzard of riffs on the musical dice game attributed to Mozart.
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There are pieces of that fine art that are with us today because they have stood the test of time: we listen over and again to Mozart but not to Salieri.
Mr de Villepin decorated his address with erudite references to such cultural totems of Mitteleuropa as Gustav Klimt, Elias Canetti, Stefan Zweig and Mozart (whose 250th birthday it was).
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 next evening these eight, together with the gifted double-bassist Joseph Conyers (a Savannah native now with the Philadelphia Orchestra), formed an ideal chamber orchestra for Mr. Knauer's delectable "Bach Meets Mozart" program.
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Dessay shook his hand warmly, encouraged him to experiment with the acoustics of the house by delivering a few whoops, and prodded him to sing a few bars of Mozart, which he did enthusiastically and tunelessly.
"If you listen to Verdi, if you listen to Berlioz, if you listen to Mozart, if you listen to anybody else -- Bach for that matter -- who has dealt with religious music, there's always a reflection of the style of their time, " Zimmer said.
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