Radio programmes analysed the merits of different interpretations of the same pieces, while there were always new reasons to hear, say, Mozart afresh, thanks to the selling point of newly researched performance techniques. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After all, Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of Mozart’s earliest friendships was with the young English prodigy Thomas Linley, whom he met and befriended in Italy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the study erroneously credited with the notion that listening to classical music, particularly the music of Mozart, made you more intelligent. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"Long fingers," she says, noticing my stare, "better for making munitions than playing Mozart, I guess. Oh, but it is good to see you, Gerta. You look well." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Matt crashed into a rendition of the “Turkish March” by Mozart, playing loud enough to make a servant drop a tray in the hallway outside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main difference between Haydn’s style and Mozart’s is really quite simple: if you can instantly remember the tune, it’s by Mozart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Mozart’s ‘Queen of the Night’ aria,” I finish. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chopin’s rich and ambiguous harmonies, interwoven intricately between the hands, looked to the future, leaving behind the primary-colour certainties of Gluck, Mozart, Haydn and early Beethoven once and for all. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Who else would invite a guy over to hear his new CD of Mozart’s Prague Symphony and let him listen without having to pretend that he likes it or pretend that he doesn’t? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy Mozart was ‘famous’ as a child prodigy, to be sure, but famous in this context meant 'attracting comment and wonderment for brief spells at various royal courts of Europe'. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They practiced the Offenbach and the Barber and Mozart’s Twenty-fifth with blank faces. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mozart’s emotional subtext, on the other hand, is disguised beneath the sheen of decorum and poise required of an eighteenth-century artisan. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Shoot, I even played Mozart on some headphones and put them on my belly. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

‘It’s a piece by a fellow named Mozart.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Such a match evoked the drama of some of history’s great rivalries—clashes such as Mozart vs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That is not to say that some classical musicians did not attain fame and success, but these were mostly singers, conductors and virtuoso players, making their names with Verdi, Mahler, Mozart or Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

People in New York loved art and music so much, she said, that artists sold paintings right on the sidewalk next to string quartets playing Mozart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Quid pro quo. Only fair,” I said, pointing to his Mozart ensemble. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drank cups of coffee and listened to Mozart quintets and read the portions of the script he had cut out. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For audiences reared on the regular, predictable patterns of Haydn and Mozart, the Eroica’s many noisy surprises would have been both titillating and bewildering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The new musical style was already well under way by the time Mozart was a young composer, and he grew up in a Europe experiencing a sea change in cultural attitudes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The inheritors of Mozart’s legacy in the twentieth century - classically-trained, self-styled ‘serious’ composers - struggled desperately with this challenge. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In his pocket was a set of reed pipes his daddy goat had carved for him, even though he only knew two songs: Mozarts Piano Concerto no. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The music critic Harold Schonberg goes further: Mozart, he argues, actually “developed late,” since he didn’t produce his greatest work until he had been composing for more than twenty years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His heroes, notwithstanding the underrated John Field, were Mozart and Bach, composers in whose music dignity was everything. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I learned to play Mr. Stephen Foster for Father and Vivaldi for Granddaddy, who was also partial to Mozart. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I recall standing at the altar at Easter, amid candles and gold vestments, hearing the Mozart high mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orchestra claimed that Conant’s “shortness of breath was overhearable” in her performance of the famous trombone solo in Mozart’s Requiem, even though the guest conductor of those performances had singled out Conant for praise. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He owned the only boom box I had ever seen, and next to it he kept a tall stack of CDs with strange words on them, like “Mozart” and “Chopin.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As a result, people started buying and playing Mozart to their children thinking that this would increase their intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Their mother played Mozart the night before the piano left. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Francis Poulenc neatly summed up the prevailing French ambivalence towards Wagner by saying that, after listening to him, it was necessary to cleanse one’s spirit and ears by listening to Mozart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Eleven years later, a nine-year-old Mozart played a recital in the packed Rotunda, which had a capacity of two thousand. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Something else emerges in Mozart, though, beyond the sublime melodies, that Haydn’s music does not anticipate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I wanted to protest, but he started to play Mozart, soft and sweet, and I turned away, my eyes stinging. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They are playing Mozart, but with a weird, dissonant arrangement of mandolins, accordions and a snare drum. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This may explain why Mozart's music is so full of catchy melodies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Amazing,” she called out to Liyana in her bare room, “that Mozart could write this when he was six and I have trouble playing it when I’m forty.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The music of Mozart, Haydn, and the early works of Beethoven are in this style, which we call classical rather than neoclassical, because the original classical music of ancient Greece and Rome is lost. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mozart, as well as being intrigued by the hidden curiosities and mystical secrets of Freemasonry, unashamedly celebrated in The Magic Flute, was fascinated by the supernatural, and by what we would call psychological motive. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Thus Mozart, an Austrian writing largely Italian-flavoured music, thought of himself as a natural successor to Handel, a German trained in Italy who settled in Britain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is not known definitively whether Mozart and Beethoven ever met, despite their lives overlapping by twenty-one years, but two more different artists, creatively or temperamentally, it is hard to imagine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And again.The orderliness of Mozart made him feel as though he had control of his own life. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize the Mozart symphony playing in the background. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Compared to the music of his teacher Haydn or to Mozart, it seems much more dramatic and pianistic, almost to the point of theatricality, than anything they had written for the same instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then she picks up the remote control for the shelf radio, punches it, and the room fills up with graceful music, Mozart or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, in the time of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, we refer to a ‘public’ concert, it is not in the modern sense of a gathering open to absolutely anyone, for the price of a ticket. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For Mozart or Haydn, the hierarchy of chords was so strict that the listener is never far from the ‘home’ key centre. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the memorial plinth itself was constructed in more recent times to satisfy Mozart’s Grave tourists and is placed in what amounts to a random spot in the garden. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mozart left us far more poignant and permanent keepsakes of his existence than his bones: he left us his extraordinary music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There is a famous painting of the two boys together in Florence in 1770, Mozart at the piano, Linley with the violin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart made music in the moment, for the moment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Like the Gainsborough and Reynolds portraits painted during his lifetime, Mozart’s music says, ‘I will do my best to make this beautiful because that’s what life, at its best, can be.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mozart, for example, famously started writing music at six. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Thinking this, he wondered if Mozart had had any intuition that the future did not exist, that he had already used up his little time. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I practice chords and arpeggios, scales and phrases, until finally, she takes me deeply into the lesson for the day—a Mozart concerto this time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Some were even calling him the Mozart of chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I choose a Mozart piece that Grandpa used to like, turn the volume way down, and press the Play button before I can chicken out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My parents went up for the ceremony in the Juilliard chapel, which, I gathered, was stark in word and dress, but rich in Bach and Mozart, thanks to Caroline’s school friends. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The odd thing about the symphony as it blossomed in Haydn’s, Mozart’s and Beethoven’s time is that it doesn’t have any direct parallels in any other artistic field. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dad is partial to jazz, and every chance he gets, he winks at me, takes out Mom’s Mozart disc, then pops in a CD of Miles Davis or Woody Herman. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Haydn’s and Mozart’s obedient following of their favourite symphonic formula - Sonata Form - could not have come at a more disobedient junction in social and political history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At church, at the altar, there were vestments of gold and the climbing voices of a Mozart mass, tossing rings sempiternal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died—in his thirties—of kidney disease. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mozart was devastated when his childhood friend was killed in a boating accident just eight years later, the same year as the death of Mozart’s mother. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For school concerts he had to play Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart, but now that he had graduated, he was free to play whatever he liked, which was swing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Technically, Mozart’s approach was similar to Haydn’s - the same orchestra, the same chords, the same architecture - but he had the melodic gift of a god. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Haydn was so adept at sculpting a tune from small beginnings that the younger Mozart and Beethoven simply copied the technique in their own way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This tally of instruments, occasionally beefed up by timpani and trumpets, was the template for the classical orchestra as used by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mozart was by far more daring than Haydn, but then he was also younger. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What mattered to Mozart was that his music should be enjoyed, not that he should be worshipped or revered, and it is this quality of treasured delight that captures his age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Did all those Baby Mozart tapes pay off? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ordinary working-class Europeans would not have known who Mozart was either during his life or for a long time after it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But large choruses, soloists and orchestra were bread and butter to Bach in his Passions, Handel in his oratorios, Mozart in his Requiem and Haydn in his grand choral works. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Seven years after composing his Pathetique sonata, Beethoven stopped sounding like Mozart or Dussek or Haydn and started creating music beyond what they had imagined. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Members of a local secondary school marching band, wearing rented tuxedoes and vintage top hats, practised a piece of the Mozart requiem, and children were given bouquets of flowers to carry. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I saw Nico over there as Mozart. I like the wig. But I thought he was George Washington.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

As the word ‘brotherly’ passed through his mind in one of his reveries, he smiled, and glanced up at the picture of Mozart that was before him... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he entered he recognized the music: Mozart’s The Magic Flute, the first act in its final scenes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He whistled some Mozart for a while and then broke into song, something rude about a drunken sailor and what should be done about him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, rather like Michael Jackson in our own time, Mozart’s childhood had been forfeited to make way for a career as a freakishly talented boy prodigy to be touted around an adult world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I believe ... that she is a second Mozart; anyhow she is more than a Mozart considering her Darwin blood.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She showed him the opening bars of the Mozart sonata, and the ivory keys felt satisfying and smooth as he tried it himself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For the well-to-do Viennese of the late-eighteenth century onwards, however, including composers like Haydn and Mozart, using the terms ‘gypsy’, ‘Hungarian’ or ‘Turkish’ was like saying ‘random foreign music by poor people’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But, writes the psychologist Michael Howe in his book Genius Explained, by the standards of mature composers, Mozart’s early works are not outstanding. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

To date there have been over twenty film adaptations and it is the second-most- performed opera of all time, after Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Unless something has distracted you in the meantime, I bet you can sing back that opening Mozart phrase immediately. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You said Dr. Meescham to Flora, “will have a seat on the sofa and listen to the Mozart, and I will go and make us some sandwiches.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘I say is that Mozart a Fascist or a Nazi?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whereas both Haydn and Mozart aimed to reveal human emotions through the filter of a gentlemanly, well-bred composure, the funeral march in Eroica is remarkable for the unflinching grip of its mood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After great deliberation, just as people were beginning to fidget, she had played a short piece by Mozart, adapted for children, but the guests wanted her to play “Jingle Bells.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the early studies that spurred a rather heightened curiosity of the benefits of music was dubbed the “Mozart Effect.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even Mozart—the greatest musical prodigy of all time — couldn’t hit his stride until he had his ten thousand hours in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He followed the sound to the back parlour, where his mother, lit by candlelight, was playing the Mozart piano sonata. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He started with Mozart, who isn’t as bad as you might think. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He imagined her with the Mozart on at nine o’clock at night. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mozart's D minor concerto also "hooks up" with the foreboding in "Doctor Atomic," Robertson feels. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

The use of some of Mozart's piano writings in the accompaniments is amusing but similarly gratuitous. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z

The program ended with Mr. Langrée’s leading a spirited performance of Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony, a work that includes no unusual percussion other than the tried-and-true timpani. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

The spirited give-and-take, the advancing and receding of the violin and the viola, flowed just as Mozart once decreed: “like oil.” Review: At Seattle chamber-music fest, a world premiere in graceful flight 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

He turned this landscape before me into sound, weaving together the names of hills and composers: "And God was Mozart when he wrote Cul Mor." Tom Service on music to play while travelling 2011-08-07T21:01:00Z

The Mozart concerto was chamber music on a high level. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

So “Mozart in the Jungle,” which some musicians and critics initially rolled their eyes at, has taken on an importance to classical music that grew after the show won two Golden Globes this year. Not Even Plácido Domingo Can Say No to ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

The makeshift thrust stage for Mostly Mozart concerts is an attempt to create a similar spatial and sonic environment. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

Yet there is little about latter-day Salzburg, which fiercely commercializes its status as Mozart’s birthplace and the setting for “The Sound of Music,” that brings to mind the word “spirituality.” Critic’s Notebook: Salzburg to Lincoln Center, Spirituality Is on the Program 2012-07-26T02:37:36Z

Vivier called “Kopernikus” a mystic tale, and it revolves around a Hindu deity and summons up such figures from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde,” operas Sellars has notably staged. Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Born in Paris in October 1835, he received his first piano lessons and wrote his first known composition at 3; he made his public debut at 10 in concertos by Mozart and Beethoven. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z

And where have the Schuberts, Mozarts and Verdis gone? Bryn Terfel: 'I'd like to sing Citizen Kane' 2012-06-26T17:40:14Z

It floundered dramatically in Act III, but nothing diminishes the pleasure of hearing Mozart's most inventive operatic score, boisterously played by the English Chamber Orchestra. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z

Almost immediately, working together, they reinvigorated what had become over several decades a calcified summer venture, dominated by too many listlessly played and predictable programs of staples by Mozart and his contemporaries. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

The tenor Paul Appleby, smooth and tender in fare like Mozart, has immersed himself in the role of Joe Cannon with a Missouri twang and desperate fury. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday and Wednesday Mozart is no longer the main act, represented only in the Violin Concerto No. 4 in D with Joshua Bell as soloist in a program centered on Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Or should we say part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as only a small band of players were onstage Tuesday to greet the British conductor Andrew Manze in an all-standard-issue Mozart concert. Some seriously gutsy Mozart stands out at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

And this is just the end of the beginning of Mozart for the L.A. Hollywood Bowl closes out its classical season with satisfying, gimmick-free Mozart 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

It was clear right away to me that this isn’t simply entertainment for princes or aristocrats, as one feels was the case for Haydn and Mozart, wonderful though their symphonies are. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Radio 3 is broadcasting all of his works in the first 12 days of the year, while this weekend sees the launch of Mozart Unwrapped at Kings Place. This week's new live music 2011-01-01T00:05:40Z

Mozart’s face peers out from the wrappers of ubiquitous chocolate-covered candies called Mozart Kugeln, grand cafes offer Mozart tortes, and souvenir shops sell Mozart key chains, stuffed Mozarts, and even Mozart rubber duckies. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mozart in the Jungle about an eccentric conductor that shakes up an old-fashioned symphony world was also chosen through the pilot process. Amazon's Hysterical, Saucy 'Catastrophe' Marks An Inspired Win In The Binge Wars 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

These are testament to Mozart as a fountain of melodic invention; the remarkable variation finale to the Sonata in G, K 379, was a particular high point. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z

The shakiness of the Mozart was harder to explain. Review: A Road Test for Concertgebouw and Daniel Harding 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Saffron Burrows, one of Bernal’s co-stars on Mozart in the Jungle, witnessed his process up close. Gael García Bernal: 'The pandemic has taught me that I need something to say' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

The Cincinnati Symphony today, as with the Mostly Mozart orchestra, is largely a product of Langrée’s efforts. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Within six months Brigitte learned how to read sheet music and could perform works from Beethoven and Mozart. Preschool pianist's Carnegie Hall debut postponed due to lack of COVID-19 vaccines for children 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

And with that, I shake hands with this picture of geniality, and he heads off to the Jungle, with Mozart, happy to be working. Jason Schwartzman: ‘This guy is so obnoxious, so abrasive, just off-putting’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Mozart didn’t live to compete the Mass, which contains his final scribbled notes. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

I did a few arrangements of Mozart’s “Requiem” recently. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Having him sit with his orchestra on stage playing Mozart’s last Piano Concerto is going to be very emotional,” she said. Jeffrey Kahane to end 20-year run as LACO conductor with his most ambitious project: a festival devoted to tolerance 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Early in 1779, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sulked back to Salzburg, Austria, having failed to land a permanent job abroad. Despite Tensions, Salzburg Remains a Crammed Summer Stage 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z

Rice will accompany the orchestra for Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, before joining Franklin to perform classic soul anthems and a selection of arias. Aretha Franklin to perform with Condoleezza Rice 2010-07-01T09:14:00Z

That’s not reassuring, especially since it was only four years ago that the center, grappling with budget woes, dissolved the Lincoln Center Festival to focus on reinventing Mostly Mozart. Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

He became a courtier and was acquainted with Mozart. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

We listen to, and revere Tchaikovsky and Mozart, and are in awe of Picasso, but each of them, and countless more, were no angels. My Woody Allen Problem 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Ms. Gates’s “Embellish” is strikingly different, a neo-Classical ballet set to Mozart selections. Dance Review: Works by Peter Quanz and Jodie Gates at Gotham Dance Festival 2012-06-04T21:19:43Z

His performances of Mozart and Chopin on contemporary pianos in the early 1990s created a sensation. CD review: ‘Concord’ Sonata by pianist Alexei Lubimov 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The week took a sombre turn with the announcement of the death, aged 85, of Sir Colin Davis – a conductor revered for his championing of Mozart, Berlioz and Sibelius. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

This African American group, the Ensemble in Residence at Texas A&M University, steps down from art's high stage and takes Mozart, Brahms, and other classical composers to arts-neglected small towns and urban neighborhoods. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z

Along with Ehnes’ superb technique, Kernis says he especially admires his “adaptability and personality. James plays Mozart so beautifully, with such warmth, but doesn’t distort the music. I think of him as a classicist.” Seattle Symphony unveils a new, custom concerto 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

He studied classical music at first, practicing for hours every day, and made his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing a concerto by Mozart. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’

He is willing to embrace, however austerely, the supernatural side of this Mozart classic, its surreal theatrical conventions. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

But the opera is also about coming together, not just in the particulars of its plot but also in the precision required in performance to add the proper fizz to Mozart’s buoyant score. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Its new approach was evident in its two Mostly Mozart Festival concerts at Alice Tully Hall: a Beethoven program on Thursday evening, already reviewed, and works by Mozart, Bach and Mendelssohn on Sunday afternoon. Music Review: Mostly Mozart and Chamber Orchestra of Europe 2012-08-07T21:46:15Z

Badura-Skoda catches Mozart’s frustrated rage in the stark motifs and hammering dissonances in the first movement of the Sonata No. 15 in F Major. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Like the Mozart quartet, which it emulates, Jadin’s begins with a slow introduction clouded with smoky dissonances over a weary heartbeat played by the cello. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

The idea was hatched as a joke in the writers’ room of “Mozart in the Jungle,” the Golden Globe-winning Amazon comedy whose third season starts Friday. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Three and a half decades later, the 55-minute work returns to New York as part of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Instead of the typical gala evening of Mozart favorites, the festival orchestra was joined by the wonderful Young People’s Chorus of New York City for a thoughtful program of symphony and song. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms all “loved and had keen interest in C.P.E. Bach’s music,” Mr. Serkin adds in the recording’s liner notes. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

His father, Johann, apparently hoped to mold him into a marketable child prodigy like Mozart. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

But Dudamel had to ultimately acknowledge that the most satisfying way to continue Mozart's vector is to follow Adams' lead by shooting new vectors. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

In 1981 he put out a series devoted to another of his enthusiasms, Mozart's piano concertos, the subject of a book he had written in 1971. Sir Denis Forman obituary 2013-02-25T13:46:32Z

Next March, he’s joining forces with Choir of the Sound to present another of the great works, the Mozart Requiem. Thalia Symphony’s new maestro wants seldom-heard composers to shine 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, he had no problems whatsoever, portraying Mozart's hero-villain in convincing dramatic and vocal style. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z

By no means is this meant to slight Mozart, whose greatest works are unassailable and as vital to healthy living as, well, oxygen. 2010-02-15T05:07:00Z

It was an entirely different string quartet that returned for the performance of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with Mr. Frost. Martin Frost at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn’t for Picasso or Mozart. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

This second season will advance from that Baroque batch into the Classical period via Haydn, Schubert, Mozart and Beethoven. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

In 2002, the musicians of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra called a strike over job security. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

On his way home to a nagging father while holed up with a frisky new wife in the palace of a count waiting for a symphony, Mozart bounced off walls. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mostly Mozart is making a habit of commissioning large-scale choral works. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

This is the kind of complex quartet Mozart would later master. Review: The English Concert Brings a Marvelous ‘Semele’ 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

Aleksey Semenenko, 27, a Ukrainian violinist and another winner in the 2012 auditions, opened the concert with an elegant account of Mozart’s Concerto No. 5 and was also notable for a lively stage presence. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Offers Stars in the Making 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

After all, both Mozart and Beethoven wrote intensely political works, so there is nothing outlandish about the idea. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z

And why the remains of Beethoven and Schubert were moved there in 1888, now flanking Mozart in a place of honor. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

At the time of the painting, Mozart was traveling in Italy to continue his artistic education, giving concerts all around the country. Rare portrait of teenage Mozart to be auctioned in Paris 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

He expresses his conservative tastes — Bach, Haydn, Mozart — in surprisingly heartfelt terms. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z

He cracks his knuckles, takes on airs and tickles her mercilessly to the tune of the Mozart sonata. A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, there is Vivaldi, Mozart and Haydn, with the violinist Pamela Frank on hand. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Musicologist Hildegard Hermann-Schneider, who traced the composition to Mozart, said the fact that other pieces in the book were known works by Mozart's father, Leopold, strengthened the case that the work was genuine. Newly discovered Mozart piece performed 2012-03-23T16:37:08Z

He showed incredible flair for Mozart and Berlioz, which was well known before he arrived. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

Those seeking an excuse to claim Mozart’s art as divine inspiration need not look beyond these four pure minutes of lyricism that rise above pain and tragedy to the reaches of sublime beauty. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Sunday’s matinee, at 2:30 p.m., is heftier: Mozart, with still a third pianist, Nelson Freire, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

When the piano enters, its quizzical music seems to be pondering the Mozart theme: You hear just hints of it. Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the greatest surprise of the festival was Ms. Taylor’s “Adagio in B Minor,” a duet set to Mozart’s piece for solo piano. For a Los Angeles Dance Festival, Reviving a Homegrown Modernist 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The next program, “God & the Russians,” offers a typically intriguing mix of pieces, including works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Paul Juon. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:37:00Z

Now we want to convince those same curious friends to love Mozart, whose mastery spanned genres and whose influence was profound. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mozart (Published 2020) 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Morley’s deliciously comical and vocally unassailable performance of Offenbach’s windup-doll aria was one of the highlights in a program that ranged from Mozart to Bernstein. Music Review: Opera Singers Bring Theatricality to SummerStage 2013-07-17T20:22:28Z

In search for enlightenment about the war’s mass delusion, they turned to the Age of Enlightenment, finding inspiration in Mozart and Hogarth. For opera lovers, at last a 'Rake' for L.A., bearded lady and all 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

This was supposed to be a short review of the free concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday evening previewing the Mostly Mozart Festival, which opens officially on Tuesday. Critic?s Notebook: A Faint Sound at a Concert, but Impossible to Ignore 2011-08-01T22:29:51Z

“The sort of lazy, obvious next step would have been Mozart, or Beethoven — which people would have loved, and we would have loved, of course,” he said. For the Attacca Quartet, a Long Trip With a Fine Haydn Soundtrack 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The Mozart and Mahler somehow set the mood for Mr. Adès’s exploration of creation. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z

And as long as unusual programs by visiting ensembles and bracing contemporary works are part of the offerings, who can deny Mozart his annual summer of glory in New York? Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

The pianist Víkingur Olafsson talks about feeling naked onstage when he plays Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16, “a piece we all have to face as pianists.” Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

I thought when I first read the brief of the script that I had never heard of Joseph Bologne before, and then realized that he is who I've read referred to as Black Mozart. Lucy Boynton on playing the misunderstood Marie Antoinette: "She had this rebellious streak to her" 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

The performance is one of the less traditional offerings at this festival, which is mostly dedicated to Mozart concerts, and which this year marks the 259th anniversary of the composer’s birth. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Mostly Mozart’s house band ends its summer season with another account of the composer’s endlessly enduring Requiem. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The Mozart reference aside, Singleton’s item is best appreciated as a part of his consistently striking catalog. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

And his account of the Mozart was nimble, sharply accented and lively, as the courtlier works among Mozart’s symphonies tend to be. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Jeffrey Kahane - Review 2011-11-23T23:13:03Z

The program she has assembled offers much to delight lovers of the classical canon, performed by the cream of established chamber players: Haydn’s influence on Mozart, offered by the St. Lawrence String Quartet! Review | Vienna in Vienna: Chamber music at Wolf Trap 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Over a long career he has produced just around 50 pieces, a number he compared, with a wistful laugh, with the more than 600 Mozart wrote in a much shorter life. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Paolo decides its time to tell the truth and answer the Mozart question... The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo- review 2013-05-15T11:00:00Z

Well, those happy days are back, at least for a while, with “Mozart in the Jungle.” A Pop-Cultural Moment for Classical Music 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” released almost a year ago, ignored by the Emmys and the subject of virtually no prenomination conversation, was a stunning nominee for comedy series. Golden Globes 2016: TV Snubs and Surprises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

His essential project is to reveal the continuing contemporary vitality of Mozart or Schubert. A guide to Jörg Widmann's music 2012-10-08T14:22:33Z

Of all five concertos, this was the work that most directly referred to the festival as it beamed the formal symmetry and textural clarity of Mozart into the 21st century. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

It was only in the second half of the 1920s that Henry Wood made a conscious decision to explore the symphonic output of both Haydn and Mozart. The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies 2012-07-26T17:30:01Z

A few hours before Mr. Lewis’s program on Tuesday, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra played a full, rewarding program at David Geffen Hall. Let’s Get Intimate. Big Music Doesn’t Need Huge Halls. 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

When the Mexican actor Gael García Bernal won a Golden Globe last Sunday for his portrayal of an impetuous orchestra conductor in “Mozart in the Jungle,” television viewers were as stunned as he was. Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The Mark Morris Dance Group and its leader have long been returning artists to Mostly Mozart; the score for Schubert’s famous “Trout” Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 — is beautifully played here. Review: Mark Morris’s New Pastoral Says Less Than Its Music 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Mostly Mozart grew to be perceived as stodgy and listless in this company. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

In the fourth quarter, Amazon began promoting two of its original shows - "Transparent" and "Mozart in the Jungle" - with television ads and billboards, the more traditional marketing tools that it previously skipped. Amazon's path to TV success takes cues from old school Hollywood 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

Schoenberg founded 12-tone music yet sometimes used rhythms that the "Blurred Lines" judgment would have given Mozart the right to demand that Schoenberg cease and desist. 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

On the counterrhythms of Astaire’s “Bojangles,” she comments, “The man who has been called the Mozart of dancers here turns Stravinskian.” Astaire The Artist, Even in Blackface 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

The Emmy-winning “Transparent” and Golden Globe-winning “Mozart in the Jungle” each began as Amazon pilots, as did “The Man in the High Castle,” the Amazon original series most streamed by Prime members globally. New Amazon Pilots Star Matt Bomer and Kelsey Grammer, Among Others 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

A mutual delight in the spontaneity of Mozart's ideas was offset by both pianist and conductor in their exploration of those darker regions where the harmonies shift and slide disturbingly. LSO/Haitink – review 2013-02-14T18:02:49Z

Beethoven’s technique was not as facile as Mozart’s. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

All this well-meaning thematization could have been deadly in lesser hands, further weighing down Mozart’s magical score, already burdened with philosophical notions stemming from Freemasonry. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

I am still grieving for the loss of “Mozart in the Jungle.” Grieving About Canceled Shows? Get Over It 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

“There’s the old saw that Mozart is too easy for children and too difficult for adults,” the pianist Garrick Ohlsson recently said by phone from San Francisco. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

The opening lineup will be Mozart, Dvorak, Gershwin and Tchaikovsky. The Little Orchestra Society Limits Schedule and Aims for Younger Audience 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

“We always wrote ‘Mozart’ with a little question mark,” Ms. Ramsauer said. Are Those Pictures Really Mozart? 2013-02-06T16:16:58Z

In Britain, the London Musical Arts Orchestra has been offering concerts of well-loved standards by composers like Mozart and Vivaldi, with players moving in ways that illustrate the give and take of the music. Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mozart and his librettist “don’t preach,” Mr. Brook states in an interview included in the program. Music Review: A Streamlined ?Magic Flute,? Reimagined by Peter Brook 2011-07-07T22:03:44Z

In Mozart – and in Levine’s best Mozart — clemency can lead to redemption. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, he plays the antepenultimate sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert; on Thursday, the penultimate. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The pearl is Argerich in Mozart's grand C major, K503, played with her trademark lyricism and eloquence, the finale almost unbearably wistful and beautiful. Martha Argerich and friends: Live from Lugano 2012 – review 2013-05-11T23:04:03Z

A few years ago the Met, with some success, tried to engineer such a hit with an abridged, English-language version of its Julie Taymor production of Mozart’s classic aimed at families. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:15:29Z

As in religious matters, a little faith is required to link the instrument to Mozart. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

“Classical music has been losing money for people for 500 years,” an orchestra administrator tells her numbers-obsessed colleague in the new Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle.” ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

By his teens, Hayes was playing Mozart sonatas and performing in competitions. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Though close to death while working on the Requiem, Mozart also was in the midst of composing his operas “The Magic Flute” and “La Clemenza di Tito.” City Choir delivers an operatic, drama-filled Mozart’s ‘Requiem’

These same qualities were animated in the Mozart, which the orchestra treated as a harbinger of Romanticism with velvety string passages, regal punctuating chords and undercurrents of dark operatic drama. Music Review: Juilliard Chamber Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-11-24T00:17:49Z

It also comes with wittily jazzy inflections of the pelvis and torso that point up special features of Mozart’s timing. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z

Mozart Unwrapped is a big retrospective that dominates the Kings Place schedules this year. OAE/Cohen review 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z

With few exceptions, he concentrated as a performer on the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms. Claude Frank, Pianist Admired for Performances of Beethoven, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

Among them was the idea that Mozart, who died in 1791, at 35, was dissolute and destitute at the end. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

If his fleet approach stinted the weight of the Lacrimosa and the intensity of the Sanctus’s joy, it propelled the Requiem through the passages characterized more by Süssmayr’s squareness than Mozart’s genius. Mostly Mozart’s Final Notes Include ‘Passion’ 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

When it comes to the favorite composer of all time, Mozart ever tops lists among performers and audiences alike. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

He lists a number of costume-drama images – crazy-brilliant figures like Mozart and Van Gogh – whose prestige is undiminished and whose work is still widely revered. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

The "Linz" hasn't been exactly ignored — it was a favorite of Bernstein, Karajan and Walter — but it shows up less frequently on concerts and recordings these days than other well-known Mozart symphonies. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

She barrels ahead into solutions for our paradoxically harried ennui, including close listening to Mozart and keeping a diary. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

“To eat a good, fresh oyster like this — with hot sauce — is like listening to Mozart with the lawnmower running,” he says. José Andrés thinks food can fix the world, starting in Haiti

Since then, ever more extreme politicizing of Mozart’s no-longer innocent work has become de rigueur for any self-respecting opera company, large or small, overseas. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Were Hermann and Käthe able to listen to the following weeks’ broadcasts of music by Mozart, Handel and Strauss? Love and Loss, Set to Music, During the Holocaust 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

He adds: “Iyer could be heard in dialogue not only with jazz or Indian musicians but also with Mozart and Stravinsky.” Essential Arts & Culture: About Julius Caesar, the Ojai Music Festival, inequity and tower design 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

She has previously sung the lighter role of Elektra's sister, Chrysothemis, in this opera, and has also performed in operas by Mozart, Handel and Gluck. Christine Goerke scores as Strauss heroine 2011-10-07T10:50:13Z

Mozart, who studied Bach’s contrapuntal techniques, wrote arrangements of some of his fugues for Sunday afternoon gatherings at the Vienna home of Baron Gottfried van Swieten, a diplomat and musical connoisseur. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-06T00:35:05Z

Near the end, as Jlin makes a bit of Mozart sound like it’s echoing in outer space, images of birth are projected onto the oculus like a vision through a porthole. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Out There ‘Requiem,’ With Nods to Mozart 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

But a much larger and more influential institution, Lincoln Center, threw down a gauntlet this summer, when it made the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra’s brief season choose-what-you-pay. How Much Would You Pay to Hear Great Music? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

UK band Clean Bandit are introducing works by the likes of Mozart and Shostakovich to young audiences with their blend of electronic beats and classical strings. The classic pop of Clean Bandit 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

It's so transparent -- it's like why you can't change a Mozart melody. Pop pioneer hails Germany despite Holocaust misery 2010-04-19T15:05:00Z

Such, certainly, would seem to be the case with Jonathan Kent's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni ? review 2010-10-13T21:15:00Z

Mozart's G-major, K. 387, heralded a new maturity in chamber music, but Mozart was only 29 and went on to write much more great chamber music for five years. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

She makes her daily living as a writer for TV, most recently for “Mozart in the Jungle,” because, “Newsflash, you can’t really make a stable living in theater,” she says. When the playwright becomes the star: How one writer is jumping from her script onto the stage 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Opera, it seemed like synergy for the Los Angeles Philharmonic to be playing nothing but Mozart and Haydn this weekend at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Andrew Manze leads L.A. Philharmonic in a horn showcase 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

In 2017, he deservedly claimed the limelight in a recital at Meany Center, playing Mozart, Liszt and Schumann. Possibly ‘the most remarkable young pianist of our time’? Benjamin Grosvenor is back in Seattle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The aria will be a fleeting — but important — moment in the new season of “Mozart in the Jungle,” which combines screwball comedy and magical realism to tell the story of a fictional New York orchestra. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

There is nothing demonic about Mr. Frost, the 43-year-old Swedish clarinetist who performed in two concerts at the Mostly Mozart Festival on Monday evening. Martin Frost at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Louis Langrée, the music director of the festival, who will conduct “Mozart Dances,” suggested recently. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

He did well in the Mozart works, too. Momentous Mahler, sprightly Mozart at Seattle Symphony 2012-04-06T16:51:04Z

Smith was inspired by the composers whose works she was learning: Mozart, Bach, Haydn. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

And, of course, in the middle of the Reagan years, when we were watching inequality expand so dramatically, it was a very important project to use Mozart’s highest vision of what human beings could become. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

People were starting to play light classical pieces on it — little Mozart pieces, little Bach pieces and pop music of the day. | Westchester: The New York Banjo Summit Is at Tarrytown Music Hall This Week 2013-01-12T02:55:29Z

After 21 years, Louis Langrée’s tenure as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra has ended. A Farewell to Mostly Mozart, and to Its Music Director 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z

Drop the name Mozart, and for most of us what springs to mind is the familiar figure of Wolfgang Amadeus: a musical prodigy and composer whose gifts were tragically underappreciated in his lifetime. 'The Other Mozart'? Her name was Maria Anna, and she dazzlingly comes to life onstage 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Many longtime ticket buyers worry that classics will be squeezed out: There is no early 19th-century bel canto next season, and Mozart is represented only by an abridged, English-language “Magic Flute” for families. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Mozart in the summer seems to be a very good idea for orchestras. Review | At the Forever Mozart mini-festival, beloved composer makes everyone look good 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

And which ensemble could be so dashing in the swerves of Andrew Norman’s “Unstuck,” from glistening quiet to violent explosions, before immediately pivoting to Mozart playing of such old-world warmth and charm? Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

But, Foster observes, “oftentimes his stuff doesn’t lie particularly well instrumentally, in the way that Mozart always seems to lie fantastically, idiomatically.” Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Who else but Mr. Serkin would think that a first half containing Josquin and Sweelinck, Bull and Nielsen — let alone a second of Dowland and Byrd, Mozart and Schoenberg — could possibly work? Peter Serkin’s Peoples’ Symphony Concert 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

In addition, the program offered the overture and two arias from Mozart’s final opera, “La Clemenza di Tito,” proposing here a hopeful vision of peace through forgiveness. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mostly Mozart is now more accurately A Bit of Mozart, and we critics joke that soon it may well be No Mozart At All. Toward a More Perfect Lincoln Center Union 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Try the famous pork tenderloin, ignoring one of the many theories about the cause of Mozart’s death: trichinosis. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

He also wrote about Mozart, 19th-century fiction, 20th-century cinema and, in his highly regarded 1968 study, “Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider,” about art and intellectual life in Germany before Hitler’s rise. Peter Gay, historian who wrote about Freud and the Enlightenment, dies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Two of Mozart’s 17 Epistle Sonatas opened the program. Review | A well-hidden Bach festival offers cheerful relief on a summer afternoon 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

It’s a scene that foreshadows Verdi and verismo, a moment of pure righteous passion, of the moral force of sacred justice—and what Mozart and Da Ponte top it with is dramatic and moral shock. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

It was such a learning curve doing Mozart with him – he brought so much love to the music, but he was never interested in following fashions, he wanted to find his own way. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

Both concertos are in C minor, and Mozart’s 24th may be his closest approach to Beethovenian drama and heft. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Tigran Mansurian and More 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

An early triumph in the United States was in Mozart's The Magic Flute in San Francisco, which she followed with stunning performances of other Mozart works in Germany. Opera star Dame Margaret Price dies in Wales at 69 2011-01-29T16:24:07Z

Online communication forms the backbone of “the whisper opera,” which will run through Aug. 13 as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

Mozart himself was said to have suspected poisoning, then changed his mind in his final months. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

Opera a beguiling production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" with magical cinematic effects redolent of the silent film era. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

I felt the film justified itself by making Mozart accessible to so many more people. Sir Neville Marriner conducts his 90th birthday tour with grace, humor 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

It recorded nearly all the piano trio repertory — Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns and others — mostly on the Philips label, through the boom years of LPs and into the digital age. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

It is crammed with dramatic music and noble sentiments, reminiscent both of Gluck and the Mozart of Idomeneo. Gr?try: Andromaque, Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

Even though Fröst played a basset clarinet, the elongated early version of the instrument for which Mozart wrote his concerto, Fröst’s style has an unsettling post-Mozart quality to it. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The message from the administration seemed clear: There are other ways to present a summer festival, even one mostly hewing to the Mostly Mozart template, without maintaining a resident orchestra. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

There will be Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn, reflecting their role in Rosen's "Classical Style," but there will also be the festival's usual offerings of more contemporary music. Jeremy Denk, in words and music 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

That goes for the core classics, like the Mozart and Beethoven on this program, and the Haydn on show in the preconcert recital. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Mozart, of course, wrote more than a dozen operas before he died at age 35. A Minute With: Composer Julian Anderson about his opera "Thebans" 2014-04-30T17:51:16Z

It opened with tolling bell strokes that set the mood for the offstage singing of Gregorian chants, which alternated with performances of Mozart’s “Laudate Dominum” and Masonic Funeral Music. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

The Met sometimes does this for its shortened, English-language holiday presentations aimed at families, which whittle down works like Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” to two hours or less. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

That program includes his arrangements of pieces by Mozart, Liszt, Fauré and Smetana. Xavier de Maistre to Play for Mostly Mozart Series 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

So, Mr. Langrée, how about a comparable “Mozart Dialogues” program or two with your orchestra next summer? Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Now that decorously small, historically sanctioned choruses have become the norm in Mozart, it is good to be reminded of the punch this music can pack in an appropriate setting like the outdoor Shed. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Mahler at Tanglewood 2010-07-18T21:49:00Z

It's a running joke for us to liken our progress and modernity to the Mehter – the Ottoman military band that once inspired western classical composers, such as Mozart. London Book Fair: Elif Shafak on Turkey's progress 2013-04-12T15:00:02Z

When Lisiecki made his official subscription debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2014, he performed three Mozart concertos in one week. Polish Canadian piano prodigy is poised to rack up frequent-flier miles 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Shows from Amazon's second round of pilots that received full orders include "The After," "Bosch," "Transparent," "Mozart in the Jungle," and the children's shows "Wishenpoof!" and "Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street." Amazon announces third season of pilots 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

There is a phrase in the flute part, sketched over and over in slightly different ways, that stops just short of being a direct quote from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Response pieces are evidence that institutions do want to program more new music: An orchestra or pianist could always just play Mozart alone. Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

It has always had to schedule its events — like Great Performers and Mostly Mozart — around the regular seasons of its constituents. With City Opera Leaving, Koch Theater Has a ?Vacancy? Sign 2011-07-12T12:00:00Z

Mozart loved the place, and reportedly made his last public performance here at what is said to be Vienna’s oldest coffeehouse, steps from St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The pianist even folded bits of other Mozart works into the score. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

That summer, just hours before Mostly Mozart was to begin, the musicians of the festival orchestra went on strike in a bitter dispute centering on the process for hiring and replacing players. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

Though Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 was top-billed for box office purposes, two 20th century works were the real attractions. L.A. Chamber Orchestra brings Peter Oundjian back to the stand 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

In his recent guest spots on Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” Mulroney introduced his musician character by playing the prelude to the Lalo concerto. Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

He said that he was not convinced that Salieri poisoned Mozart, as was rumored at the time. Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

After Handel’s death, Mozart and Mendelssohn rearranged its score. Dance Review: Mark Morris Stages ‘Acis and Galatea’ 2014-04-28T21:20:19Z

The Amazon Studios series “Mozart in the Jungle,” a drama centered on the classical music world, is a prime example. Perspective | The 10 most baffling Golden Globe wins and nominations of the millennium. (Remember ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’?) 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

But Prof Lawson - who is an expert on Mozart - said he thought he was chosen for other reasons. Mozart tops list for callers on hold 2013-09-23T14:03:45Z

Returning to the city as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival here is his finest, most large-spirited work of the past 16 years. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z

"Mozart," which counts Roman Coppola, Paul Weitz and Jason Schwartzman among its creative team, is part of Amazon's first batch of original series, which also includes "Transparent" and "Bosch." 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Mozart even wrote some orchestral transitions as segues from arias to choruses. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Concludes With Almost All Mozart 2010-08-22T23:58:00Z

Early Monday evening, Louis Langrée, the orchestra’s music director, led 13 players in a Mozart masterpiece, the “Gran Partita” Serenade for Winds in B flat. Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

And in 1934 he was convicted of forgery in Milan after the police were tipped off by Toscanini’s son Walter, who had bought a fake Mozart from him. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mozart’s final opera, “The Magic Flute,” is not only one of the most frequently revived and crowd-pleasing of his works, but also possibly the most difficult to summarize. Cornerstone Theatre's nine-play cycle on hunger in America finds its inspiration in Mozart 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Langrée spoke to the audience about how special the occasion was for the musicians — the “first time in two years that Mostly Mozart gets together again.” Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

A measure for any clarinetist is the great Mozart concerto, one of the composer’s last works. Stanley Drucker, Ageless Clarinetist of the N.Y. Philharmonic, Dies at 93 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

Preternaturally gifted composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived here and they don’t let you forget it. My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

We are reminded that Schubert’s teacher was none other than court-composer Salieri, the legendary rival of Mozart, and that Schubert himself was one of the torch-bearers at the funeral of Beethoven. Ian Bostridge’s ‘Schubert’s Winter Journey’ examines the composer’s melancholy work 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Even the fictional classical scene has taken note: The Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle” filmed an episode about a concert on Rikers Island. Opera in Attica: Bringing Arias to a Maximum-Security Prison 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sellars first made his name in the 1980s with vividly updated productions of Mozart operas, including “The Marriage of Figaro” set, yes, in Trump Tower. Women Rule at Ojai Festival, Unannounced 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

On Thursday at the Rose Studio, in a program presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the quartet demonstrated extraordinary charisma, style and energy in works by Ligeti and Mozart. Review: A Quartet With Sunny Energy and Grunge-Band Grit 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

The ambitious production, set to Mozart’s Requiem, was inspired by the ephemerality of dance: the notion that once movement is performed, it cannot be repeated exactly. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

I knew, on my first visit to the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2012, that this wasn’t your grandmother’s Aix, a sleepily pretty assemblage of Mozart productions. A Calmly Daring Operatic Leader Says Au Revoir 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Mozart had long since tossed out the archaic opera seria format. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

The Bach was as fluid and swift as rushing water, and the Mozart sounded as contemporary as the Abril. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

The second half of the concert features Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 in G minor, which fans of “Amadeus” will recognize immediately. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in May 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Yale houses millions of images in its archives, museum and libraries, from a sonata written by the hand of Mozart to a watercolor by William Blake. ArtsBeat: Yale Opens Its Image Vault Online for Free 2011-05-12T16:24:41Z

In addition to being a dedicated bibliophile, Scheide was a musician and musicologist; his library contains autographed music manuscripts by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Wagner. Princeton Receives a $300 Million Gift of Rare Books 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Dove cites Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” as a model for his approach. How Seattle Opera came to film its newest production at the Museum of Flight 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

In between is a program of Andrew Norman, Mozart and Korngold — the grand Symphony in F sharp, which Petrenko has lately championed. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

The louder the group sings, the louder Mozart yelps. The Richard Smallwood you know: 4 Doves, 10 Stellars, 8 Grammy noms 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

He conducted daring productions like “Philharmonic 360,” in which the orchestra surrounded the audience in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory and played works by Boulez, Mozart, Ives and Stockhausen. Alan Gilbert to Leave New York Philharmonic in 2017 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

As before, Manze seemed intent upon establishing Mozart as the direct precursor of Beethoven, whether in the relatively early violin concerto or the mature Mozart of “Don Giovanni” and the “Jupiter” Symphony. Some seriously gutsy Mozart stands out at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Having released a recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas in the fall, Fujita began his recital with two pieces by that composer. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Mozart Festival Theme Takes Flight, From Lobby to Stage It is hard to attend concerts these days without getting birds on the brain. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z

Colin Davis's recuperation from illness undoubtedly reset some of the dials for this programme of Elgar and Mozart, two composers in whose music the veteran British conductor particularly excels. LSO/Sado – review 2013-01-15T18:29:01Z

But the news for the moment is Dudamel's growing dexterity with Mozart. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

But many programs still adhered frustratingly to the festival’s brand: Mostly Mozart. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

"Mozart in the Jungle" also depicts some of the more prosaic aspects of orchestral life — chronic financial difficulties, intractable union negotiations and the obligatory brown-nosing of wealthy patrons. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

And Pablo Heras-Casado, 35, the thinking person’s idea of a hotshot young conductor, now the exciting principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, led an impressive program with the Mostly Mozart orchestra in 2010. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

Thomas swallowed and plunged into learning Mozart roles. Perspective | Russell Thomas is much more than a black tenor. Now, he’s tackling ‘Otello’ and the field’s stereotypes. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

A fair question, and one that the concert program’s notes attesting to his crabby admiration for Mozart’s music only partly addressed. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z

Amazon also announced this morning that “Mozart in the Jungle,” a comedy starring Gael García Bernal and set in New York City’s classical music scene, has been greenlighted for a second season. Amazon Orders Full Seasons for Five New Shows 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

She’s a real partner for Mozart, indulging his silliness but never permitting him to turn her into a joke. Review | ‘Amadeus’ at the Folger will be music to your ears 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

He said he managed to find a way through the opera’s difficulties by treating it with the respect he would give a great work by Wagner or Mozart. Met Opera Takes On ‘Fedora,’ Neglected Tale of Murder and Love 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

She accompanied endearing stories of her childhood with elegant performances of Haydn and Mozart. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mozart's dark comedy is regularly staged, and versions bringing its dramatic context up to date and closer to home are nothing new. Don Giovanni ? review 2011-08-24T17:41:34Z

Lincoln Center commissioned “Sila” jointly for the Mostly Mozart Festival and the Out of Doors series. A New Work by John Luther Adams Debuts at Lincoln Center 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

And on Thursday, a meatier program includes Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, a new work by Gabriela Lena Frank, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

In 2019, the college sold a rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio at auction for just under $10 million, and a Mozart manuscript for an undisclosed sum. Is the Music Over at Mills College? 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I was the Salieri of the Mozart story: ‘I am so passionate about the theater! It’s the Golden Age of TV. And Writers Are Paying the Toll. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

At the age of 85, though, his production of Mozart's Magic Flute was his last show as artistic director there. This week's new live music 2011-03-19T00:06:11Z

He started the season this month as Don Ottavio in a revival production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Royal Opera House in London. An American Tenor Is ‘at Home Everywhere’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

Traveling around Europe and appearing at various courts, including Versailles, the Mozarts are treated as a circus act by aristocrats insatiable for novelty and gimmicks. French Film Festival Looks Back, to ?70s and 1700s 2011-03-02T10:18:20Z

William L. Shirer was a balding, mild-mannered man who smoked a pipe and loved Mozart. Books of The Times: A Foreign Correspondent in Nazi Germany Who Interpreted It for the World 2011-08-09T21:57:15Z

This was good, if not exceptional, Mozart playing. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z

Throughout the production, the Sinfonia plays multiple extracts from Mozart, occupying the capacious stage like a restless organism that cannot itself be stilled; the superb musical director is Simon Slater. Review: Salieri’s Anguish Continues in a New ‘Amadeus’ in London 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

From the Venetian masters to Bach or Handel to Mozart, Beethoven or Brahms ... they all improvised. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z

Mr. van Zweden will conduct plenty of old favorites, including Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, and works by Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Shostakovich. The New York Philharmonic’s Fresh Start: A Season Spent at Home 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Yet according to a recent article in an academic journal, researchers have posited at least 118 causes of death for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

The evening was dedicated to Charles Mackerras, whose long association with the orchestra is etched into the way it plays Mozart: that lovely combination of elegant lines punctuated by joyous, cheeky ornamentation. Don Giovanni 2010-10-11T20:46:00Z

She got her first big stage break singing the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

It seemed no surprise that in the Mozart he suddenly swapped his violin for a trombone: he played that instrument with the same gusto. Dance Review: ?Tango y Vida? at Chase Latino Cultural Festival 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z

However aristocratic and privileged opera's historical pedigree might be, there is nothing in Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, or Puccini's works that has to tie them exclusively to the social conditions in which they were created. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

Salieri’s existential emergency — his renunciation of a God who could bestow greatness on a goofball — is interesting only because of the historical Mozart. But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

But Thursday’s important concert full of content and meaning, pitting Pärt's merciless “Miserere” with Mozart’s troubling and dispiriting Requiem, left no place for escape. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

"If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time." Musical comedy duo Igudesman & Joo unafraid to mash up Mozart, James Bond 2012-11-04T15:36:42Z

And, because our son is a musician, we felt there was no better place to visit than Vienna and Salzburg because of their historical connections to Mozart, Beethoven and other classical composers. Inspired by the Billy Joel tune, a family heads to Vienna 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

There were no Bernstein or Mozart chestnuts to be heard. Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic Festival With Mos Def - Review 2011-10-09T21:48:21Z

For a deep dive into the life of a musical genius, composer Jan Swafford’s biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart provides a well-rounded portrait that will speak to musicians and laypeople alike. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Leading one new production of a Mozart opera is hard enough, especially as an introduction to the company — but two, simultaneously? Is It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

If, back then, the group’s members were pioneers in respect to race and repertoire, it is hardly novel today to see Asian soloists and ensemble players performing Bach, Mozart and Beethoven in concert halls. Tokyo String Quartet to make last Seattle visit 2013-04-12T19:35:10Z

In public transit stations from London to New York you often hear the sound of gentle classical music — some Mozart perhaps, maybe some Bach. Will Jarring Music Drive Drug Users From a German Train Station? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

When talking about the opera early on with Ms. Hannigan, they agreed the Snow Queen wouldn’t be an “agitated soprano” like the Queen of the Night from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Beethoven, like Janacek, Mozart, Brahms, and Dvorak, would surely be cheering as well. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T12:52:00Z

No disarming machine — sorry, Siri — has ever sounded so ideally human as Mozart’s clarinet. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Mozart de Prairie” was a brilliant headline, even if it never ran. Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

It is in any case a grand creation, and Mr. Nézet-Séguin, despite generally brisk tempos, gave it full weight and impact with the Mostly Mozart orchestra and the Concert Chorale of New York. Music Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-05T21:43:45Z

Still, there are things to be learned from Mostly Mozart by institutions everywhere. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

There was appealing intimacy and considerable warmth on Wednesday, though, in an account of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 that featured Yefim Bronfman — a veteran too often taken for granted — playing with lucid, gentle eloquence. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Now, of course, the Mozart tourist trade keeps Salzburg well-fed. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

In his love of detail, playfulness and precision, Knussen shares the same aesthetic terrain as Mozart and Ravel. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

Mozart was never far from Beethoven’s thoughts as he confronted the opera stage for the first time. A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

One complication is that music history refers to the years from roughly 1750 to 1825 as the “classical” period, when Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven achieved their glory. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

I was sorry I couldn’t attend the Mostly Mozart Festival’s “Don Giovanni,” one of many tantalizing events I missed. Highlights of Classical Music, From Lully to Glass 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z

Photograph: David Farrell/Redferns When I first started listening to opera as a teenager, the Mozart recordings I had were Colin's. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

Mozart's "The Magic Flute" gets a South African-style makeover at the Broad Stage, and a New York socialite labors under the delusion that she's an opera singer in "Glorious!" at International City Theatre. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 5-12: 'The Magic Flute' and more 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mozart had a clear point of view on the character. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival brought that production to the David H. Koch Theater in August with a riveting cast. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

So the book leaves a bus carrying Ramzi and fellow musicians making their own “musical intifada” — an impromptu performance of Mozart and Bizet at one Israeli military checkpoint — to resounding applause. ‘Children of the Stone’: the power of music in a hard place 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The Saturday program is co-ed: Clara Schumann’s Trio is the heart of the program, and the violist Andrew Gonzalez joins the group for piano quartets by Robert Schumann and Mozart. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

A math and science major, he admits he can't remember a single trigonometry equation, whereas he's never forgotten Mozart's "A Little Night Music." L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky exiting as a champion of arts 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Over the next few years, Cliburn's international popularity continued as he recorded pieces ranging from Mozart to a concerto by American Edward McDowell. Van Cliburn, American classical pianist, dies 2013-02-27T17:19:28Z

This summer, Mostly Mozart will be confined to about three and a half weeks, its shortest span in years. At Mostly Mozart Festival This Summer, Lots of Beethoven 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Scottish Ballet, with its finger on the pulse as usual, has commissioned a new ballet from Elo, set to music by Mozart and Steve Reich. This week's new dance: Edinburgh special 2011-08-19T23:10:11Z

Leading from the piano is a throwback to Mozart’s time, and can be fascinating to witness. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

The recitatives have refined vitality, and the ensembles are exquisite, including graceful choruses and a closely harmonized trio that anticipates the Three Ladies of Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” Music Review: Eccles’s ‘Judgment of Paris,’ at Washington Square Festival 2013-07-10T19:59:16Z

Here's a select list of what "Mozart" gets right and wrong about the rarefied world of symphony orchestras. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

It was like hearing a wordless mezzo-soprano in a Mozart . Music Review: New York String Orchestra, Conducted by Jaime Laredo, at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-31T21:05:36Z

Her efforts include drawing fashion luminaries to Mostly Mozart performances as well as organizing fashion symposiums and film series. | New York Fashion Week: Marshaling Fashion?s Troops 2010-09-08T00:19:00Z

In the 1930s, the performance of Mozart's operas in England was almost totally confined to Don Giovanni, Figaro and The Magic Flute. Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect match 2012-06-22T21:55:15Z

Surely these gifted young players would bring a distinctive spirit to new music, but Wednesday’s show included only Mozart. New York String Orchestra Presents Mozart at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jacobs is exploring the late Mozart symphonies, in which his performances are sometimes surprising in their refusal to conform to the more straightforward style of either the Vienna Philharmonic or the British early-music practitioners. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z

Tresnjak finds fertile parallels between the sexual politics and master-servant dynamics of Illyria, the isle where "Twelfth Night" takes place, and the realms where Mozart operas unfold. Oregon Shakespeare Festival celebrates 75th year with intriguing interpretations 2010-06-25T21:24:00Z

If we must hear Mozart symphonies, there are many performed only rarely; is yet another “Jupiter” necessary? Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

But there's a moment in every parent's life when you have to accept that if your kid isn't writing symphonies at 4, he ain't Mozart. Motherlode Blog: The Jock (and his Dad) at the Chess Board 2012-07-29T11:00:43Z

Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved A dozen years ago the Mostly Mozart Festival epitomized much of what was wrong with the tradition-bound ways of classical music. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

The demonstration is part of an on-going protest which began on 22 September when the Met's season opened with a work by Mozart. Protests against controversial opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

In fact, the two Sinfonias that bracketed this portion of the concert were written in 1775, well into the careers of Haydn and Mozart. Review: Koopman, SSO go for Baroque 2011-05-14T17:08:05Z

The symphony will perform “Requiem,” Mozart’s final work — left unfinished at the time of his 1791 death — in three concerts beginning Thursday, Oct. ‘It’s good, man’: Seattle Symphony Orchestra concertmaster offers a peek at Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Harnoncourt’s Mozart concert also capitalized on the enhanced possibilities afforded by a festival. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z

Mr. Ohlsson, a longtime Mozartean, will be doing the honors in the pit during Mark Morris’s “Mozart Dances” at the Mostly Mozart Festival this week. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

For this lesser-known opera, Jacobs has chosen to use a score that was reworked after Mozart's death to dramatically potent effect, writes Andrew Clements Who gave the best performance on Later … with Jools Holland? Andy Williams dies aged 84 2012-09-26T14:36:07Z

The young musicians will perform works by Handel, Mozart, Palestrina and Carl Orff. A wide-ranging musical homage to Mark Rothko’s paintings 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

He subtly interweaves quotes of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven with made-up classical riffs and elements of Stucky's own music, adeptly moving us not only back and forth through history but also through reality and fantasy. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

During Act I of Mozart’s “Idomeneo,” the people of Crete react with grief and dismay to the news that their king has died in a storm at sea while returning from the Trojan War. A Conductor’s Falsetto: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

"He just died. Other humans, mere mortals, we're not handling this well," says Robert "Bobby Z" Rivkin, the Revolution's original drummer, who compares Prince to Mozart in his work and influence. What would Prince want? Two years later, his estate is a mess and his legacy unclear. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

An all-strings program featuring pieces by Jessie Montgomery, Mozart, William Grant Still and Tchaikovsky will premiere April 15, as will a concert celebrating 160 years of bilateral relations between Italy and the United States. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

But the linchpin of this production is Mr. Krawczyk, not just for his elegant playing but for his free adaptation of Mozart’s score. Music Review: A Streamlined ?Magic Flute,? Reimagined by Peter Brook 2011-07-07T22:03:44Z

It’s interested in many of the things that interested Mozart — structure, harmony and melody — but on its own terms. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

His many recordings include works by Paganini, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. US violinist Ruggiero Ricci dies 2012-08-06T14:21:46Z

Mozart was preceded and followed on the program by his dear friend Haydn. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z

Best of all is Rienzi's prayer, in which his almost oceanic tone blends with the elegance of the fine Mozart singer he once was. Wagner: Arias; Wesendonck-Lieder – review 2013-03-06T15:30:01Z

I also include the pianoforte instrument in the arias, sometimes, for joyful moments — like the kisses of Zerlina, a little bit in the spirit of Mozart, what he would do. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

But his playing is unfailingly charismatic, and the rustic exuberance of the final movement of the Mozart concerto sizzled. Review: Orpheus’s Shifting Glimmers From Angled Glass 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

At the same time Mozart was finishing “The Magic Flute,” he was commissioned to the write an opera in tribute to Austria’s Leopold II. “Clemenza” was dashed off in three weeks. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

To help teach the work, which is part of the group’s season at the Mostly Mozart Festival in August, dancers will be present throughout the crowd to help with the steps. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The umbrella over them all is Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which maintains the complex and creates its own arts programming — such as the highly popular “Mostly Mozart” classical music series. Perspective | Lincoln Center announces groundbreaking appointment of top artistic leader 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

On the program that evening, she added, was Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 — music by an Austro-German composer being played by a London-based ensemble whose members come from across the European Union. As Brexit Looms, Musicians Brace for the Worst 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

He began on the safest possible ground, with Mozart’s “Zauberflöte” Overture. Music Review: Fabio Luisi With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-17T15:15:08Z

She was equally extolled for her roles in Mozart operas. Lisa Della Casa, Opera Singer, Dies at 93 2012-12-13T00:28:21Z

This collection focuses on 25 public figures, including Einstein, Mozart and Toni Morrison, and zeros in on what they were doing with their lives during their mid-20s. Newly Published, From Sea Stories to Trauma’s Impact 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Without being distinctive or particularly thoughtful — why this Mozart, in this order? — the choreography is fluent and theatrically savvy. Dance Review: Works by Peter Quanz and Jodie Gates at Gotham Dance Festival 2012-06-04T21:19:43Z

But it also presents over 200 of its own events each year, through festivals and series that include Great Performers, the summertime Mostly Mozart Festival and the White Light Festival each fall. Lincoln Center’s Artistic Leader to Leave After Three Decades 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The setup inevitably recalls Mostly Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” series, which takes place in the same time slot and in the same venue, with the audience seated club-style, at tables. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Mozart is the glue that binds Bath's annual November festival, but the celebration of other composers for whom Mozart was central only reinforces its integrity. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z

In the most humane comedies, particularly Mozart’s, comeuppance can lead to self-knowledge and transformation. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Oliveros, 81, who is being celebrated this season as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, focuses on cultivating disparate noises in her pieces. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Showcases the Work of Pauline Oliveros 2013-08-21T21:37:54Z

Where Tchaikovsky’s concerto dazzles with surface-level pyrotechnics, Mozart’s calls for more understated virtuosity. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

“There’s a nice saying, similar to what used to be said about Mozart: It’s too easy for the amateur and too difficult for the professional,” Davies adds. At 80, America’s most famous composer remains a maverick. The man who’s conducted his 11 symphonies talks about why. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

I’m talking about Mozart, I’m talking about Beethoven, I’m talking about Schubert. Golden Globes 2016: The Revenant wins top prizes as Gervais skewers the stars 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

There is touching warmth in his “Siegfried Idyll,” delicacy and charm in his Haydn, dignity in his vivacious Mozart. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The orchestra, and the Mostly Mozart Festival, flourished under the leadership of Moss and Langrée. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

There was an informal system of fines: £10 if anyone introduced a Mozart piece with its Köchel catalogue number, "Completely unnecessary," he announced. Letters: Michael Bukht obituary 2011-08-09T17:37:45Z

Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” won best television comedy, notably beating “Transparent,” the transgender-focused comedy on Amazon that stars Mr. Tambor. At the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais Holds Nothing Back 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

But Victoria Paterson, a violinist who worked on the show “Smash” and toured with Barbra Streisand, said she had seen several episodes of “Mozart in the Jungle” and liked it. Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Thake said that, as a New Yorker who knows the Mostly Mozart orchestra as a beloved New York institution, she can see that going into Langrée’s final season, “they’re stronger than ever.” Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

To enter the Prize draw you must answer the above question about Mozart. Win one of two exclusive 'new vintage' classical music vinyl box sets together worth £3,400 2013-05-25T16:00:00Z

Malcolm McDowell stars in the comedy "Mozart in the Jungle," a story about "sex, drugs -- and classical music," an Amazon statement said. Amazon asks customers to pick from TV pilots for show development 2014-02-06T21:01:51Z

The phrase is part of the title character’s entrance line in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and announces the work’s strangeness and ambiguity, the way it shifts between comedy and tragedy. At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

In the slow movement, moreover, Mozart offers unmeasured silences that produce a momentary sensation of being lost in space, which is hardly usual in a Classical period concerto. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Studying the architecture of Mozart scores in detail, for instance, changes the way you look at music. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

The spirit of Soma and Mozart was, for several moving moments, the same phenomenon. L.A. Phil's YOLA players are goodwill ambassadors near Fukushima 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

After a certain time you discover the Mozart in you, the Duke Ellington or Billy Strayhorn in you. Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you' 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z

She fell ill in 1787 while Beethoven, 16, was on his first trip to Vienna, where he had hoped to study with Mozart. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mozart completed his concerto Jan. 5, 1791; he died Dec. 5. Herbert Blomstedt leads L.A. Phil's commanding Bruckner performance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic, soon to vacate Avery Fisher Hall for the summer, is stealing a march on the Mostly Mozart Festival, which moves in next month. Review: New York Philharmonic Gives Mozart His Due 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

There would be more familiar fare before the night ended — Mozart, Gershwin, Stravinsky. San Diego Gets Its Answer to the Hollywood Bowl, Just in Time 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

“Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, will fall silent in the ghetto forever,” a captive resident wrote in 1944. Nejiko Suwa and Joseph Goebbels’s Gift 2012-09-21T17:36:28Z

Not quite true, but young audiences will still learn a lot, as well as hear the younger Mozart’s music. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 9-15 2012-11-08T23:27:07Z

The duo offered committed performances of three Mozart sonatas, with Mr. Wosner’s singing tone and expressive musicality complementing Ms. Koh’s insightful, richly hued playing. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z

At the opposite extreme, the Mozart eventually gravitated towards what sounded like two very different performances being given concurrently, rather than a unified duet. Argerich/Goerner ? review 2011-08-16T18:30:01Z

Louis Langrée, Mostly Mozart’s music director, has thoughtfully approached the Requiem’s possibilities. Mostly Mozart’s Final Notes Include ‘Passion’ 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

“Growing up in Austria, she was the main tourist magnet, aside from Mozart,” said Marie Kreutzer, who wrote and directed “Corsage.” An Empress Ahead of Her Time Is Having a Pop Culture Moment 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Certainly, a powerhouse institution like Lincoln Center, in America’s cultural capital, could come up with something fresher each summer than a calcified festival offering listlessly played performances of boring programs under the banner of Mozart. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

A younger contemporary of Bach, Pergolesi died 20 years before Mozart’s birth, yet much of the Stabat Mater sounds much closer to Mozart than to Bach. Music Review: Sacred Works by Pergolesi at Church of the Epiphany 2010-03-29T21:11:00Z

In a bit of extra fun, Mozart and Schikaneder dropped in elements of Masonic ceremony, believed to be payback for the fraternal organization's persecution in Austria. 'The Magic Flute': feathers, fun and Masons 2011-04-29T21:46:38Z

What does Pipedreams have in its pipeline now that “The Mozart Project” is off the drawing board? A Digital Mozart Book That Behaves Like an App 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

He is the music director of the venerable Paris Opera — and inspired the wild-haired maestro protagonist of the Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle.” Will Gustavo Dudamel Be New York’s New Bernstein? 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

It’s Mozart living and breathing — and breathing fire. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

After the Lincoln Center Festival, which hosted ambitious international touring productions, was founded in the mid-90s, Mostly Mozart, which had once lasted up to nine weeks, dwindled from seven to four. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The foursome marches on, bringing Mozart's "King of Prussia" quartets to the Meany Hall stage. 17 of Seattle's top entertainment picks, April 15-21 2012-04-11T22:47:04Z

Nor has he shied away from making dance to “important” classical music, including compositions by Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and Mozart, composers often considered too monumental for dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Both last movements were delightfully playful; both Andantes were reflective, if oddly balanced; and the Mozart first movement spoke with authority and moments of repose. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

The music itself is interesting as a peek into the work of an accomplished composer writing during Mozart’s teen years, with Rossinian antecedents in, for example, the chaotic Act 1 finale. Tastes change, but backstage behavior is as bad as ever 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

It is good to see the Philharmonic standing by Mozart and trying to do its best by him in this age of period specialization, but this effort was unforeseeably upstaged. Colliding Concerts Deliver a Surfeit of Mozart 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“This is a play, not a biography of Mozart. But almost everything in it can be supported by historical fact. “I am positive that Salieri intrigued against Mozart,” he said. Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

References to Mozart’s time during the ball scene at the end of Act I include, oddly, a slew of cheap-looking masked, gowned mannequins in the windows. Review: At the Met, a New ‘Don Giovanni’ Has a Stark Vitality 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

Mozart was probably composing violin sonatas in the womb, and had knocked out 16 by the age of 10. Pass notes No 2,892: Mozart 2010-12-05T21:00:00Z

What if you happen to be a classical music writer with a wholesale aversion to Mozart? Theater: A Theater Critic Suffers Odd-Man-Out Syndrome 2010-04-16T23:56:00Z

Yet even though Mozart displays technical brilliance, the music that drives these lust-ridden plots is, on an erotic level, almost unreasonably tame. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

Saint-Saëns’s Symphony in A, composed at 15, showed a precocious mastery of devices and themes borrowed outright from Mozart and Haydn. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z

Ted Huffman may well be the only American to graduate from singing in Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” as a child to directing a new production of the work at one of Europe’s major opera houses. American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

For nearly two decades he’s been its summer tenant as music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival. Review: A Conductor Makes His Philharmonic Debut, at Last 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

It may be because of the ditsy, sometimes realistic, sometimes not tone of “Mozart” that some in music have gone after its divergences from real life. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Some quail whenever the society, which presents more than 100 concerts per year in New York and beyond, veers even slightly from traditional crowd pleasers, including works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

There was so much to like in Monday's new production premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Festival that it's difficult to know where to start. Mozart in the forest: a different Don Giovanni 2010-08-09T21:52:00Z

Debating it at this late date is as silly as debating Mozart's musical competence or Shakespeare's literary prowess. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

But there was still the power of the censor to consider, so Da Ponte and Mozart laced their politics with comedy. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

It was the Mozart’s Requiem of songs about home invasions. Viral video news memes bring fame – but still feel almost racist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The timpani played by Nicholas Stoup in both the Mozart overture and Beethoven's symphony were small period instruments that made a stinging whip-crack of a sound rather than the boom of the bigger modern instruments. L.A. Phil's Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla lights a fire at Disney Hall 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

It is heady stuff for a 14-year-old, even Mozart, who focused the intense plot through the distilling process of the dominant operatic form of his time: opera seria, an imposing, rule-driven series of arias. Music Review: From Milan to New York in 240 Years 2011-05-20T03:04:12Z

The Basiani, founded in 2000 and affiliated with the Georgian Patriarchate, offered a wide range of its country’s sacred and secular music as part of ’s Bach and Polyphonies series at the Mostly Mozart Festival. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z

He nonetheless came to see the value of classical training; he later returned to the classics and eventually performed Bach and Mozart on several occasions with symphony orchestras. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

The homes of Schubert, Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven and Mozart all host museums — but they are small and rather forgettable. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

His rendering of the opening theme of that second movement in the Mozart sonata showed particular poise. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-05T19:39:22Z

The effect, entertaining enough, was to flatten Mozart's perfect musical and dramatic structure. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z

Considering the Requiem wasn't even finished by Mozart, ending on this chorus at least leaves us with the composer's own voice. Review: a full stage, full of beauty for SSO Mozart program 2011-01-21T18:50:05Z

When Jane Moss arrived at Lincoln Center 25 years ago to shake up its programming, many people thought that the days of its well-loved but staid Mostly Mozart festival were numbered. Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

The piano line sounds like it’s harking back to Mozart, but restless strings grumble away at something more unsettled. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the first half of the recital, Perahia conveyed a sense of pianistic perfection to a series of small pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Brahms. Pianist Murray Perahia scales the Everest of Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' in a momentous performance 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Why did I choose Mozart to open the film? "Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans": Filmmaker on capturing the "utopia" of Cuba in new doc 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

She was the first folk singer to perform at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival, where she sang Scottish songs as arranged by Joseph Haydn. Jean Redpath, Prolific Scottish Folk Singer, Dies at 77 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

If Mostly Mozart has not been radically transformed, it has certainly been enlivened, thanks to some entrepreneurial thinking, even if the changes were driven in part by a sense of desperation a decade ago. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

His early sonatas were inspired by Mozart and Haydn, but his final works in the genre break from tradition with a bold synthesis of Baroque idioms and revolutionary forms and ideas. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will get a new name when Heyward takes the podium next year. Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

On Friday at 8 p.m., they take Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony and Mozart — the Clarinet Concerto, with the magnificent Anthony McGill as soloist — to Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Classical Music Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

At 16, he played the Mozart flute and harp concerto with the St. Louis Symphony. Druzinsky: CSO harpist known as a dedicated musician 2011-01-10T19:12:00Z

But Mozart and Da Ponte avoid excesses of sexism by showing the men as the ones who actually do the deceiving. Dudamel and the L.A. Phil illuminate, elevate 'Cosi fan Tutte' 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

“I’m not a baritone,” Villazón said, noting that Mozart wrote the part for Emanuel Schikaneder, the “Flute” librettist, who was a famed actor and impresario but far from a traditional opera singer. A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Schmutzinberry, a clueless contemporary composer who reveres Mozart, used to appear at Lincoln Center, too. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Before the Schubert, Vogt and the Tetzlaffs had essayed the three Brahms trios, as well as two by Dvorak; with Christian alone, there were accounts of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

In “Mozart in the Jungle,” the orchestra’s charismatic conductor is played by Gael Garcia Bernal, who was also a surprise winner for best actor in a TV comedy or musical. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ surprises at the Golden Globes 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

The one surprise was in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mozart was not the only composer, but when he was not, he was still the focus. Review: a full stage, full of beauty for SSO Mozart program 2011-01-21T18:50:05Z

But Mozart had a whole second career as a path-breaking opera composer. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

As a pianist, Gulda collaborated with Chick Corea and was a noted interpreter of Mozart, so he came by his wide-ranging affections honestly. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

A concert on Friday at Avery Fisher Hall featured Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in war horses by Mozart and by Beethoven, whose music is being highlighted along with Mozart’s this summer. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z

The resulting LP of two Mozart quartets was released by the Japanese label Denon. Antonín Kohout 2013-02-26T18:12:07Z

The notion of feminine ornamentation is central to “The Other Mozart,” directed by Isaac Byrne and presented by Here and Little Matchstick Factory. ‘The Other Mozart’ at Here Arts Center 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

But does he stand out in the crowded marketplace of 18th-century symphonies, among the reigning works of Mozart and Haydn? William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z

This one features Dvorak, Leopold Mozart and Vivaldi, along with a story. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 28-Dec. 4 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, an arrest warrant was issued for Jimenez, 30, of the 4200 block of South Mozart Street in Chicago. Bride's husband called 'possessive, jealous' 2012-05-17T00:30:00Z

This isn’t Mozart as a museum piece, porcelain to be handled with delicacy. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Now 86, Mr. Brook returns to New York for the Lincoln Center Festival’s presentation of his new interpretation of Mozart’s “MAGIC FLUTE.” The Week Ahead: July 3 ? 9 2011-07-01T18:34:09Z

The refreshing part was allowing Auerbach to enter into a direct dialogue with Mozart by writing the cadenzas for one of his concertos. Review: At the NSO, a composer in delightful dialogue with Mozart

The second season of "Mozart" is expected to debut in 2016. 'Mozart in the Jungle': What it gets right and wrong about classical music 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

“At first I wondered,” Mr. Langrée said of the 11th concerto, which opens the “Mozart Dances,” “why didn’t he take a more important piece? But actually, he showed everyone how wonderful this piece is.” Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Norman’s “Unstuck,” from 2008, was also a tightly controlled riot on Friday, and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 — with Noah Bendix-Balgley, one of the orchestra’s concertmasters, as the soloist — sang with full-bodied sweetness. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Neenan’s creation, set to Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, is a sophisticated meeting of alternating elements. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet, at the Merriam Theater, Shows Exuberance and Panache 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

I’m surprised they don’t pipe Mozart through the streets twenty-four hours a day. My week at the naked mountain hut 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Its text is the legend of a rake — an Internet Don Juan — merged with sad-clown Pagliacci as Mozart plays on the soundtrack. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Despite Mozart's best efforts, this scene is sometimes silly as directors' pull out all the stops to make it sinister. Mozart in the forest: a different Don Giovanni 2010-08-09T21:52:00Z

Because of an editing error, a picture caption on Friday with a review of “Mozart Dances” described incorrectly the musical composition to which the dance “Double” was set. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

‘The Other Mozart’ In her decidedly feminist, beautifully designed solo show, Sylvia Milo plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s forgotten sister, Maria Anna, a thwarted musician whose story is inextricable from that of her famous younger sibling. Theater Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s performance of a Mozart sonata fails to impress its composer, who suddenly urges Beethoven to improvise. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

In “The Heist,” Silva delivers his typical brand of hard-boiled dialogue, romantic intrigue and culture-packed references, from Mozart to Bruckner, Caravaggio to van Gogh. Daniel Silva is the best-selling author of the Gabriel Allon series. Meet his secret adviser 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Mozart’s two settings of the prayer service are not among his most performed works, but they offer great beauties. Music Review: ‘My Soul Rejoices’ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 2012-10-22T04:23:03Z

More memorable was a less exalted, less widely publicized concert: one of the festival’s 11 a.m. weekend Mozart Matinees featuring the Mozarteum Orchestra. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

The company’s music director, James Conlon, puts Mozart first, which means enough verve to keep spirits high and enough support for his singers to remind them of the durable significance of what they sing. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Something of that same approach was then applied to the beginning of Mozart’s Requiem, making it at first flush sound inappropriately Adams-like. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The choreography for each was by Balanchine; the music was by Mozart, Ravel and Gounod and finely played by the Workshop Orchestra, conducted with élan by Daniel Capps. Dance Review: School of American Ballet Workshop Performances 2013-06-03T21:09:56Z

His recordings included Stravinsky’s ballet music with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Dvorak symphonies with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; and Mozart violin concertos with Ms. Fischer and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Yakov Kreizberg, Orchestral Conductor, Dies at 51 2011-04-11T22:49:58Z

The program also includes Prokofiev’s “Summer Day Suite” and an early Mozart symphony. The Week Ahead: June 5 ? 11 2011-06-03T18:16:25Z

Arriaga is often called the Spanish Mozart, but as the Quiroga’s robust performance made clear, Beethoven was a far more decisive influence. Music Review: Cuarteto Quiroga at the Frick Collection - Review 2012-01-16T22:28:26Z

Mozart is perhaps the composer most likely to reveal flaws in ensemble work. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z

Bits of Mozart’s own transcendent Requiem played in my head. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: You say you wrote some operas? Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

True, the Mozart did not augur especially well. Review | An old hand shines anew in Bruckner 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

On their recently released album, the Ottensamers hope to bring their practical experience to arrangements of even familiar works by Mozart and Verdi. When One Instrument Speaks in Three Voices 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

It certainly wasn’t the kind of light, lithe Mozart colored by historically informed performance practice, though that’s not to say Znaider is unaware of the same. Soloist-turned-conductor impresses with NSO’s Mahler 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mozart composed it at 20, possibly for the harpsichord, as fortepianos were not widely available in Salzburg, where he lived at the time. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Jeffrey Kahane Leads the New York Philharmonic 2010-03-26T20:47:00Z

He shocked Mozart's eloquent melodies with sudden spikes, the aural effect of taking a match to the original score. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The Mozart opera, in a production that was earlier updated to the 21st century by the inventive English director Jonathan Miller, demolishes a lot of stage clichés with a brash modernist zest. Seattle Opera puts a zesty 21st century spin on ‘Cosi fan tutte’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Blessing of the palms, with a bagpipe procession, a dramatic reading of the Passion and music by Frank Ferko, Schütz and Mozart. Passions, ‘Superstar’ and More 2014-04-10T22:10:48Z

Mozart’s characters learn all there is to know about the people they love, and they reconcile anyway. Review: A Happy Ending in LoftOpera’s ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ With an Edge 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

This is just a bizarre category – Mozart in the Jungle, a show that, somehow, won a year after the beginning of the awards deluge for Amazon’s higher profile, more dramatic, more relevant Transparent. Golden Globes 2017: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

There have been a handful of sold-out performances at Heinz Hall in the new year, she added, both for pops programming and for core classical pieces like Mozart’s Requiem and Holst’s “The Planets.” After a ‘Scary’ Fall, Audiences Are Coming Back to Orchestras 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

In the evening Mozart took a turn for the worse, and his doctor, Thomas Closset, was summoned from the theater but sent word that he would come once the show was over. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

The chorus and orchestra sang just the opening fragment of the “Lacrimosa,” the last bit of the Requiem Mozart composed before he died. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z

Opera, classical music concerts and theater are all part of this festival, set in Mozart’s hometown. Spirit Drawings in London and Rock in Niigata, Japan: Global Arts Guide 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

It turns out to be a representation of a scene in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” with the characters dressed in the style of seventh-century Japanese courtiers. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

In a new program, “Dutch Doubles,” which opened last week at the Het Muziektheater, he adroitly combines tutus, Mozart and Beethoven, as well as high-profile collaborations with modern artists and designers. In ‘Dutch Doubles,’ 4 Choreographers, Inspired by 4 Artists 2014-04-21T12:35:07Z

With no time to find a replacement, Pinnock filled in the program with six late German dances, written by Mozart the same time as the E-Flat Symphony. Pinnock, Rana fill in admirably with L.A. Philharmonic 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ferrillo was out sick, and Ms. Rowe did not join until the second half of the program, so they did not play in the Mozart concerto. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Mozart is a kind of doctor for any singer or musician’s playing: Every note that is not right, every dynamic, every articulation, every balance is hearable immediately. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

New York audiences first heard him at the Mostly Mozart Festival last summer. Philadelphia Orchestra?s New Leader 2010-06-13T15:42:00Z

“For every hour of combat training they should watch one hour of Mozart in the Jungle,” says Oliver. John Oliver, Will Arnett Make Honest Ad for Border Patrol 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

“Mozart in the Jungle” has its share of absurd moments, including several attempts at magical realism that threaten to verge out of control. A Pop-Cultural Moment for Classical Music 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

His First is transparently indebted to Mozart and Haydn, until it isn’t. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Also in the programme is Alston's luminously funky Roughcut, set to two Steve Reich scores for clarinet and guitar, and Unfinished Business, performed to works by Mozart including a piano sonata. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival concludes with performances of Mozart’s powerful Requiem at the end of the week. Steven Schick Takes On ‘The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies’ 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Langrée chose older works by Mozart and Lully that complemented Mr. Lang’s piece, scores that incorporate, for their time, exotic percussion instruments, including cymbals, triangle and tambourines to evoke Turkish locales. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Tenor Daniel Montenegro will be a rare vocal participant on July 23 and 24, with a set of songs flanked on the program by a Mozart violin-viola duo and the Brahms Horn Trio. Chamber music and cheeseburgers at Olympic Music Festival 2011-07-01T20:23:09Z

The opening night gala for Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, in its 51st year, was held at the David Geffen Hall on July 25, and honored the award-winning Amazon Original show “Mozart in the Jungle.” Summer Nights 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Famously heard, of course, in Mozart’s “Requiem” and the tender darkness of Franz Schubert’s “Der Doppelgänger.” David Bowie and the sad, inspiring history of making art while dying 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

There’s more of the festival’s namesake at the official opening night on Tuesday, when Mr. Langrée leads Emanuel Ax in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14 and Erin Morley as soloist in two Mozart arias. Classical & Opera Listings for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

That night, the New York Philharmonic had “limited availability” for its concert of extremely standard fare — Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto, Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. Review: A Conductor Unearths Rarities. Will People Listen? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

So take your pick: Gustavo Dudamel opens the season with two programs focusing on Mozart’s last year on Sept. 26, Sept. 29 and Oct. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Armed with hot lines to the long-departed souls of Mozart, Handel, Bach and all earlier composers, they told you how this music had to go. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

As an opera star, he regularly spreads the gospel of Strauss, Debussy and Mozart, but he also wanted to champion the music of Black composers such as Robert Owens, Margaret Bonds and their successors. Review: Lawrence Brownlee Makes Room for Black Composers 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

Conrad Tao playing Mozart with a superb orchestra for free or cheap: That is the core of the center’s mission. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Badura-Skoda’s specialty was the Viennese classics—Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. What Paul Badura-Skoda Did for Classical Piano 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

The season will open in September with Cape Town’s Isango Ensemble performing two shows in repertory: an adaptation of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” and Shakespeare’s epic love poem, “Venus and Adonis.” The Studio Theatre play that can’t be named — and it’s not ‘Macbeth’

So much so, that Mozart was actually re-using the melody here from the Agnus Dei of his earlier Coronation Mass transposed from the original F major to C major. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

It was first presented last year in Budapest as part of a cycle of the three operas written by Mozart to librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z

Shanta Thake, Lincoln Center’s chief artistic officer, said that the rethinking of Mostly Mozart was aimed at “opening this up and really saying that this is music that belongs to everyone.” Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Her take on Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte” in Aarhus offered audiences two productions — one traditional, one contemporary — and began each night with a vote to decide which would be staged. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

I can imagine Mozart happily sipping wine at the Kaplan Penthouse while hearing a Bach partita for solo violin or being shaken and fascinated by a Thomas Adès string quartet. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

For the following eight years, he was artistic director of the National Symphony Orchestra’s “Summer Mozart Festival.” Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73

“We were always wondering why Mozart should be painted with a bird’s nest in his hand.” Are Those Pictures Really Mozart? 2013-02-06T16:16:58Z

The encores opened with the theme and variations from Mozart G Major Sonata K379, ravishingly done, and close to perfection in its elegance and grace. Tetzlaff/Vogt – review 2013-01-22T13:31:59Z

There may be only two women in this opera – Rosina, who has become the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and the housekeeper Berta – but they have handbags full of shrewish intelligence. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z

Hopefully, the ballet, set to Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, is here to stay, just as, hopefully, Nichols will be back again. It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

He began with another Austrian composer, Mozart, offering excerpts from the opera “La Clemenza di Tito” — including two arias featuring the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, whose appearance was part her own Perspectives series . Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Yet full blast in this hall's acoustic occasionally made for hell on the ears, albeit a foil for the heaven of Mozart. BBCNOW/Howard Shelley ? review 2011-01-14T22:01:00Z

Crucial to the success of his concept were the involved performances he coaxed from a fine cast of exciting young Mozart singers. It’s (Almost) Business as Usual at the Salzburg Festival 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Chamber favorites by Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart are on the bill, too. 18 of the week's top entertainment events 2012-01-25T23:30:05Z

To Linyekula, Mozart’s Requiem, written as the composer was dying in 1791, symbolized his own feeling that he and his Congolese artist colleagues were the last of a tribe. The incomparable political art of Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

The Met, after all, is a superb Mozart orchestra, and Mr. Luisi, who conducts “Don Giovanni” from the harpsichord, has a firm grasp of the composer’s style. Music Review: Fabio Luisi With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-17T15:15:08Z

But as a presentation of Mozart’s darkly twisted look at love and lust, it’s very, very cautious — muted both dramatically and comedically. A ‘comedy’ about a seducer? Seattle Opera tackles new version of ‘Don Giovanni’ with skill and caution 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday evening Mr. Fischer took on a more standard Mostly Mozart assignment, conducting the Festival Orchestra in the first of two concerts at Avery Fisher Hall. Music Review: Mozart?s ?Jupiter,? Still Celestial but More Personal 2011-08-10T21:57:49Z

But if there had only ever been one set of instruments that could play, say, Mozart symphonies, they might not be performed often. Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Then Boston, conducting Mozart and a new edition of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony that is dedicated to Blomstedt himself. A Conductor Brings Nearly a Century of Experience to Beethoven 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, in fact, uses those words to promote its fall festival, Dedications, inviting listeners to consider works dedicated by Mozart to Haydn and by Schumann to Mendelssohn. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z

Although Mozart wasn’t one to look back, the world has done little else when it comes to contending with an unintended late style. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Unesco recently recognized the unique heritage of Viennese coffeehouse culture, which predates even Mozart. In Transit Blog: Calendar: Coming Events in Detroit, Vienna, Las Vegas 2013-04-26T17:00:24Z

If, for example, I express my delight in classical music, and you adore Mozart, then you may feel we’re more similar than my obvious revulsion at your political opinions might have led you to believe. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

That synthesis, Mr. Fischer explained, was exactly what he intended when he took on the Mozart operas, in pursuit of what he called an “organic” performance. Ivan Fischer Returns to Mostly Mozart With ‘Nozze di Figaro’ 2013-08-09T18:45:43Z

Mozart wrote two new arias for the cantata. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Concludes With Almost All Mozart 2010-08-22T23:58:00Z

With Mozart on his studio hi-fi, Rothko gets ready to paint, dueling with his psyche over what the commission means. Mark Rothko and Selling Out in the Art World 2010-03-26T20:43:00Z

More than in the other canonical Mozart works there is a too-muchness to the opera’s cycles of transgression and forgiveness, power defined solely as the constant exercise of clemency. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

“Play some Mozart, play some Schubert and all was well with the world.” future maestros and mezzos at the Seattle Opera 2013-03-29T21:13:56Z

The April 11 and April 13 programs are mostly standard Nelsons fare: Shostakovich, Mozart and Strauss, with Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 and a new work by Jörg Widmann filling in the gaps. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mozart and Da Ponte are saying, in effect, “Forget it, Anna, it’s Europe.” The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Honeck’s solution is to cut the final sections and present the Requiem as Mozart left it — almost. Review: Mozart’s Requiem Gets a Fresh Spin at the Philharmonic 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

"There is nothing passive in Mozart," he told student Jongyun Kim, who sat at a piano and struck the opening note of Piano Sonata No. 13. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Welsh National 's surrealist take on Mozart's last opera, first seen in 2005 and now being revived for the second time, has proved remarkably appealing. The Magic Flute 2010-09-29T20:45:00Z

The Bach and the Mozart are true duets, in which the piano and violin have equal roles, and Levin made an arresting partner. A lyrical blend of new and old in Hilary Hahn and Robert Levin’s performance 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

He has been nicknamed “the Mozart of Madras.” How did they do that ’do? 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

As the Seattle Symphony offered its latest installment in its Mainly Mozart series, it still managed to start with a world premiere. Review: a full stage, full of beauty for SSO Mozart program 2011-01-21T18:50:05Z

The next year, after three previous unsuccessful auditions, she was accepted into the Royal Opera at Covent Garden and made her debut at the First Lady in Mozart’s “Zauberflote.” Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z

At the time of the painting, Mozart was traveling in Italy as he continued his artistic education, giving concerts all around the country. Rare Mozart portrait flies above presale estimate at Paris auction 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Melodic shapes may be Mozartean, but the pitch material for melodic motives comes from the letters of Lionel Messi's name, for the simple reason, Harbison writes, that the Argentine is the Mozart of soccer. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

So why make a full evening of dances to Mozart? Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

“In Aix-en-Provence I am characterized as a Mozart expert; in Munich, I am regarded as a specialist of Bruckner. It is dangerous to classify musicians in this manner.” He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

“When you ask me what I did for the festival,” she said, “I can say that without me there would not be a Haus für Mozart.” After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

That proof was a gripping performance, more committed than any I have knowledge of in any Mozart opera, from a multicultural cast that compelled belief. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Beyond bel canto, Dame Sutherland's repertory ranged from Handel and Mozart to Verdi and 19th-century French operas. Obituary: Soprano Joan Sutherland was opera legend 2010-10-12T03:18:00Z

Mozart’s 38th symphony is known as the “Prague” Symphony because it had its premiere during the composer’s first visit to the city. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

To which Mozart replied under his breath "Give them time to chew on it." Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z

The week before rehearsals started, with her “entire support system slashed in half” by surgery, Lewek was still able to sing only up to a high G, a full octave below what Mozart’s music required. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Instead Mozart’s turbulent music segues right into the next scene, where Idomeneo, the king, has actually been washed up on a beach. A Conductor’s Falsetto: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The young journalist's boss told her that under no circumstances should she ask the Mozart question, and that's exactly what she does! The Mozart Question by Michael Morpurgo- review 2013-05-15T11:00:00Z

Ms. Davis’s distinctive way with language was also evident in a libretto she wrote for a transformed and politically corrected version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” presented at New York University’s 80WSE Gallery last week. Vaginal Davis’s Feminist Wall Reliefs Pledge ‘Open Revolt’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

So it was fitting to include Mozart as an experimenter in spatial composition. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z

F. Murray Abraham will be the speaker in “Requiem and Death in Words and Music,” which incorporates selections from Mozart’s “Requiem.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z

Jones got the idea 10 years ago while writing a book about Mozart’s composing style. London music professor completes Mozart's unfinished works with self-described 'bloody cheek' 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Most conductors these days reduce an ensemble’s string body to chamber orchestra proportions for Mozart. Music Review: Fabio Luisi With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-17T15:15:08Z

Worlds away from the sober dark comedy of “Transparent,” “Mozart” seems at first glance to be a fanciful exercise in magical realism. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Mozart published his 1785 quartets with a flowery epistle that projected a very clear image of the nature of his relationship with Haydn. Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z

Unlike the poor fragile skull of one, W. A. Mozart. Tom Colicchio Changes His Restaurant’s Racially Tinged Name 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

Accompanied by the soaring sounds of a Mozart Adagio or more threatening show music, the exhibition looks at the underbelly of prim Victoriana. Exhibition Review: Alexander McQueen in All His Dark Glory 2011-05-02T13:00:52Z

“It is not that I hate Blair,” said Randall Ellis, the principal oboist of the Mostly Mozart Festival. Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Raised on Long Island, Ms. Goerke overcame her self-doubt to achieve success singing Mozart and Handel. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

“Don Giovanni” is the first of three partnerships with architects and fashion designers on Mozart/Da Ponte operas to be produced over three seasons. ArtsBeat Blog: Frank Gehry to Try His Hand at Mozart 2012-01-05T20:05:45Z

Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Rachmaninoff were all considered among the top virtuosos of their day. Composer Stephen Hough, accomplished on paper and in the concert hall 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, the excellent Brentano Quartet, which recently became quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music, plays works by Mozart, Bartok and Beethoven. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

He found hints of dark corners in Mozart's most fluidly lyrical concerto where others would not think to look. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Two woodwind principals — Kjersti Dahle, oboist, and Matthew Taylor, bassoonist — introduced themselves in the spare opening of the Vivaldi slow movement and provided joy throughout, especially in the Mozart. Music Review: Norwegian Ensemble Flaunts Its Bows and Body English 2011-03-24T22:04:24Z

A transcendental love duet, extracted from a "pantomime" on the life of Krishna, was a playful transposition of the billing and cooing of Papageno and Papagena from Mozart's The Magic Flute. John Tavener – review 2013-07-08T17:14:59Z

The Washington Chorus’s 2019-2020 season, just announced, will include the Mozart Requiem and a festival of female composers. Review | Washington Chorus pairs unlikely works offering reflection and reconciliation 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

On Saturday the 92nd Street Y opened its season with an inspired performance by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, which offered thrilling renditions of music by Mozart, Schubert and George Tsontakis. Review: The Joys of a Conductorless Chamber Performance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

He brought to Carnegie a sprawling program, the culmination of a two-season series devoted to the final sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Mr. Eisen contributed chapters on Mozart’s grand tour of Europe as a child, and Mozart’s career in Vienna, and brought in a handful of his colleagues. A Digital Mozart Book That Behaves Like an App 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

In the first of two concerts, on Wednesday evening, he conducted the school’s symphony orchestra in a program featuring three pianists from its graduate program playing Mozart concertos. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z

“It’s fun to hear Mozart sucking up to the king with the cello parts he’d written, because the king was a cello player.” Spare Times for Children for May 3-May 9 2013-05-02T23:06:46Z

Here he takes a seldom-heard gigue for piano by Mozart and turns it into something spiky and startling. Music Review: Nicolas Hodges, Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2013-01-23T21:55:16Z

But Salzburg is a popular stop for travelers, and this quaint city offers tourist attractions and gift shops awash in Mozart memorabilia. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z

For that reason and myriad others, this set might be a challenging listen for those who, like me, primarily associate Mozart with crystalline, poignant grace. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Nézet-Séguin is a gifted Mozart conductor, and his treatment of the finale — witty and nimble — could have been the overture to one of that composer’s operas. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mark Morris’s new staging of Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” will have its New York premiere this summer as part of the 48th Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. ArtsBeat: Mark Morris Bringing a Handel Work to Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-04-09T14:00:52Z

Everything that you can cover in later Romantic music — you can hide much more in Wagner — you can’t with Mozart. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

The performance of Haydn’s “The Creation” on Thursday was not your typical straightforward Mostly Mozart Festival presentation. Review: A Dazzling ‘Creation’ Brings Light to Lincoln Center 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

There are two programs this week from Mostly Mozart’s resident ensemble: The first, on Friday and Saturday, sticks mostly to, well, Mozart. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

She built up her voice with a steady diet of Mozart and Handel. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Mozart’s glorious music sets the scene on a monstrosity, and his musical realization of a monstrous world and its deliverance is one of the glories of the history of art. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Boston Symphony has performed Dvorak three times as often in the second half of its history as in its first, according to the orchestra; Mozart’s fortunes have risen almost as dramatically. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

The 10-minute divertimento, written when Mozart was 16, was wonderfully lithe and loose. Music Review: Eb?ne Quartet at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2010-08-19T21:21:00Z

Now elderly and pondering the meaning of his existence, he supervises the enactment of his memories through a series of lively vignettes based on well-known duets and arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Review: Frisky Malkovich in 'Giacomo Variations' 2013-06-03T18:30:10Z

There was a sense of the routine, the dutiful, in the performances of Mozart and Bruckner. Under Eschenbach, NSO pays dutiful homage to greatness 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Nowadays Mostly Mozart is a more compact festival, and guest ensembles lighten the orchestra’s workload. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival, Louis Langrée Conductor 2012-08-19T21:50:48Z

Recalling the works – Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and Stravinsky's choral-orchestral masterpiece, Canticum Sacrum – transports him back to his childhood, a place of energy and enthusiasm. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z

She saw her first opera at 10 years old, when her father performed in an amateur production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a church hall. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

In addition, he recorded Mozart’s and Haydn’s symphonies as well as Beethoven’s symphonies and piano concertos — all of which displayed a rousing, dancelike quality that brought Mr. Hogwood classical superstardom in the 1980s. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73

He had made his Met debut three years earlier in the title role of Mozart’s “Idomeneo,” substituting for Luciano Pavarotti, who had withdrawn because of a schedule conflict. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z

Mr. Langrée is familiar to New York audiences as the music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2013-14 Season 2013-01-31T16:59:48Z

He brought a depth of dramatic and musical insight to the three Mozart/da Ponte operas. Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect match 2012-06-22T21:55:15Z

While it is true that “Acis and Galatea” is mostly Handel, it is partly Mozart. ArtsBeat: Mark Morris Bringing a Handel Work to Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-04-09T14:00:52Z

The fashion which sees theatre meet opera has spread beyond London to Exeter, where The Bike Shed is premiering a new take on Mozart's The Magic Flute set in a 1920s jazz club. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-10-08T16:27:00Z

Bach, much admired by the young Mozart, generally wrote in major keys but deviated on the Symphony in G minor, resulting in a dramatic, expressive work. Seattle Symphony celebrates baroque dads 2012-03-01T20:54:05Z

Mozart's operas became the exclusive diet at Glyndebourne for the next three years. Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect match 2012-06-22T21:55:15Z

Tchaikovsky worshiped Mozart, whom he claimed not merely to like but to “adore and idolize.” SSO spotlights Tchaikovsky and his favorite composer | Classical review 2013-05-10T16:56:26Z

Levine’s conducting sets tempi that allow the cast to luxuriate in Mozart’s astonishing outpouring of melody while coaxing from the singers the turn of dramatic interest in every musical phrase. “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Met 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

It was a good night Wednesday for avid followers of the Mostly Mozart festival. Review: Mostly Mozart, Highlighted by Sol Gabetta’s Haunting Vocalise 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

In Shanghai, he practiced Bach and Mozart on the violin to the sound of artillery fire. Edgard Varèse’s Protégé Chou Wen-chung, Going Strong at 91 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The stupendous Swedish clarinetist Martin Frost, who won high praise for his appearance with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in December, returns to New York for two programs with the Mostly Mozart Festival. Martin Frost Returns to New York for the Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

I’ve done three episodes of “Mozart in the Jungle.” It’s just for fun. Joshua Bell on the death of Neville Marriner and picking up the baton from a legend 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

It’s true that the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra’s compressed season — which began with a week of mentoring and performing alongside student musicians — promises to showcase talented young guest artists. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

And catch up on “Mozart in the Jungle” before Season 3 arrives. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ and ‘The Ice Storm’ 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

The main reason I am looking forward to the Mostly Mozart Festival’s production of “Don Giovanni” is that the Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra are top-notch Mozart performers. The Conductor Will Also Direct 2011-07-14T22:44:55Z

The find is considered important, because no other head-on portraits of Mozart exist after 1781. Are Those Pictures Really Mozart? 2013-02-06T16:16:58Z

Pasadena Symphony The orchestra under conductor David Lockington is joined by guest vocalists for a season opener that includes Mozart’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 3 and Elgar’s “Introduction & Allegro.” The week ahead in SoCal classical music, Oct. 14-21: Mariinsky Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale and more 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

I’ll never forget a phrase that I read in a book: Mozart said, one of the most difficult, important and crucial things to realize in playing my music is simply the right tempo. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

The piano takes center stage at the Mostly Mozart Festival, when two pianists known for their probing musicianship join the festival orchestra in some of Mozart’s most beloved concertos. Beloved Concertos at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

When the foundation bought the painting, “W. A. Mozart 1764” was inscribed on a page of the book. Are Those Pictures Really Mozart? 2013-02-06T16:16:58Z

Which is what the orchestra, chorus and soloists of the Royal Opera performed, albeit in the expanded Mozart orchestration. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Modern music may suit Kriikku better than Mozart, but this was fascinating. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mozart subtly questioned aristocratic hierarchies; Beethoven’s sole opera is about the rescue of a political prisoner; Verdi stoked nationalistic fervor and explored the machinations of church and state. At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Moss enlivened Mostly Mozart acoustically by moving the stage forward into the auditorium. Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Bridging the two keyboard concertos with Stravinsky's orchestral Concerto in D was an inspired choice, revealing the influences of Bach and Mozart on the later composer's brand of neoclassicism. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt ? review 2011-04-05T17:45:01Z

When Mozart—or Mahler—writes a woodwind melody, its timbral coloring and registral placement are so flawless that it would seem to have been born inside the instrument itself. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

With glaring exceptions — Monteverdi, Mozart, Janacek — most of the rest, particularly the 19th century, is deeply problematic. It’s ‘Carmen.’ But Not Like You’ve Ever Seen It. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

His latest offers him as pianist and conductor in sensitive, articulate accounts of Mozart’s Piano Concertos 22 and 24, with the Suedama Ensemble. Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z

It was “Mozart in the Jungle” in the flesh. 'The Messiah' from opposite ends of the economic spectrum 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

In recent years contemporary music has been increasingly incorporated into Mostly Mozart. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

The cause of Mozart’s kidney problems remains in dispute too. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

From the style of the composition, Hermann-Schneider attributed it to Mozart at around the age of 11. Newly discovered Mozart piece performed 2012-03-23T16:37:08Z

While the society’s programming reaches back to stalwarts of the Western canon — particularly in the all-Mozart opening night concert, “Classical Epicenter: Mozart in 1787,” on Oct. Looking Back on Haydn’s Legacy at the Chamber Music Society 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Salzburg is Mozart’s birthplace, so it seems a fitting location to present his work in a fresh way. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

He happened to hear a recording of the French flautist Marcel Moyse playing a Mozart concerto. Richard Adeney obituary 2011-01-23T18:31:02Z

Mozart died in December 1791, before he could finish the Requiem or even flesh out some sections he had sketched. Mostly Mozart’s Final Notes Include ‘Passion’ 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

They speak in fractured jargon from various disciplines and play Mozart to relax. Review: In ‘The Lazarus Effect,’ Young Scientists Play God 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Francis, who grew up listening to opera on the radio and loves tango, Mozart and Wagner, didn’t buy anything this time around. Bad luck: Pope acknowledges he got caught at record store 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Stepping outside again in the thin Salzburg sunlight, those with the heart for it could buy chocolates wrapped in dainty, shiny paper near the house where Mozart was born before they boarded the bus. Tracing Jewish Heritage Along the Danube 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

He will conduct various performances of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Wagner’s “Siegfried” through Nov. 5. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z

The coming “Mozart” season will also shine a spotlight on contemporary music, with a cameo by Nico Muhly, the young American composer whose opera “Two Boys” was staged at the Met in 2013. Not Even Plácido Domingo Can Say No to ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

Some of Mozart's most memorable tunes in his opera The Magic Flute are based on very simple harmonic blocks of three or four chords. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

Martin Frost and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto are no strangers to each other. The Swedish Clarinetist Martin Frost Wants to Move Beyond Traditional Concert Formats 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

He breezed through Mozart and Strauss, and ended with the Long Call solo from Wagner’s “Siegfried.” A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

For a traditional program of Mendelssohn and Mozart, the festival orchestra abandoned David Geffen Hall, the space it typically uses, for Alice Tully Hall. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Mostly Mozart staging, scheduled for Aug. 11, 13 and 15, will be a revival of that original production, which was directed by Katie Mitchell. Lincoln Center and New York Philharmonic to Collaborate on Operas 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

All we have to do is let Mozart, say, do his job. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

The final performance of “The Angels” program of “Mozart & Pärt” was Friday night. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Classical concerts at Mostly Mozart kick off with two performances of Bernstein’s “Mass,” an immense, careening, overflowing work teeming with different musical styles. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Home to the sweetness and light associated with Mozart, Salzburg on Sunday was in the grip of a darker and grimmer genre of opera. Strauss' Elektra at Salzburg darkly brilliant 2010-08-09T00:46:00Z

The new trio begins each movement with a harmonically skewered version of Mozart's melodic gambits. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Though theatergoers unfamiliar with Mozart or Casanova may be perplexed by much of this show, the implications of its characters’ spending lots of time beneath those oversize skirts should be lost on no one. Theater Review: ‘The Giacomo Variations,’ With John Malkovich, at City Center 2013-05-31T18:03:12Z

She also cultivates 18th- and 19th-century operatic repertoire from Mozart to Meyerbeer, at prominent houses such as Zurich Opera and the Paris Opera. Lea Desandre Gives a Modern Voice to Early Music 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

While constructing a multifaceted dance musicality to answer Mozart, Mr. Morris adds a connective structure of his own. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

And starting on Friday, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra moves inside to Alice Tully Hall for five programs: 10 concerts over two weeks. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

He played this concerto with a marvelous serenity, reflecting the confident awareness that neither he nor Mozart had anything to prove; mastery, in their respective spheres, was simply taken for granted. Impressive guest turn by symphony’s former principal horn |Classical review 2013-05-03T18:32:51Z

In between movements of Mozart’s “Haffner” Symphony, conducted by Mr. Langrée, the inspiring Young People’s Chorus of New York City sang folk songs and spirituals. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

As we talk, Cleobury biffs out a few chords of the Mozart Requiem and then some from Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline to suggest that Mozart may have "borrowed" from his predecessor. King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z

He has recorded the Mozart concertos, conducting from the keyboard, and presented marathons of the complete Mozart sonatas. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z

"I was missing music, really missing having music with me on a daily basis," said the engineer, who plans to perform several operatic pieces, including an aria from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Whistlers pucker up and blow into Carolina town 2012-04-19T06:53:09Z

He said, "You wouldn't tell a young black kid not to play Mozart because he doesn't have a German root. That's culture. He should do that." Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

You would think that a Mozart symphony should be heard as an entity, a single composition in four parts. Review: Mozart, a Little Bit Symphony, a Little Bit Opera 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The sound of Mozart warmed the empty room. Abroad: In Gaza, Concert Leaves Echoes of Normalcy 2011-05-04T13:45:05Z

Readers may have heard of Mozart, but they’re less likely to be familiar with the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, the English spy Edward Bancroft or the book’s colorful villain, Count Alessandro Cagliostro. New Middle Grade Fiction From the Authors of ‘Wicked’ and ‘Knights vs. Dinosaurs’ 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

But that would be to forget his allegiance to the revolutionary in Mozart rather than to the Meissen figurine. Nikolaus Harnoncourt Explores ?Porgy and Bess? 2010-06-04T13:37:00Z

Forman threw himself headlong into many other enthusiasms, including atheism, battle drill, Mozart and Scottish country dancing. Sir Denis Forman obituary 2013-02-25T13:46:32Z

During the documentary Fischer is described as "the Mozart of chess". Child prodigy 2011-07-15T01:11:11Z

Just as at the beginning of the Mozart concerto at Avery Fisher, he phrased the start of the Schubert with a coyness that verged on archness before gradually relaxing: the formal turning confessional. Paul Lewis Plays Mozart and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-08T23:12:58Z

The Trinidad-born Ms. De Bique, a recent graduate of the Manhattan School of Music with a small collection of prizes and high-profile engagements, will sing arias of Mozart, Bellini, Gounod and Gershwin. The Week Ahead: Sept. 12 ? Sept. 18 2010-09-10T15:37:00Z

He suggested the short Mozart “Adagio in B Minor,” and that I work with David Adrian Freeland, who I had danced with a lot. A Ballerina Harnesses Her Wild Imagination to Choreography 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

The program ended with a sumptuous, limpidly molded account of Mozart’s popular Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, with Sonia Rubinsky as the expressive soloist. Music Review: New York Women?s Ensemble at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-01T23:46:05Z

Viewed that way, Mozart seems like just the ticket for the orchestra — and its audience — to pause for effect, without skimping on magnitude or grandeur. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘All-Mozart’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-06-21T21:44:31Z

But more recent research, including by the scholars Alan Tyson and Ulrich Konrad, helped date them more precisely, allowing Jones to be focused in exploring the circumstances in which Mozart created them. Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Mozart in the Jungle” travels to Italy as Season 3 begins. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour’ and ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Then there is the quick trip to Prague to conduct a special performance of “Don Giovanni” to mark the 230th anniversary of the Estates Theater, where Mozart’s opera had its premiere. How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mozart wrote one of his most sublime melodies for the Quintet’s second movement, Larghetto, performed here with glowing tone by Mr. Shifrin. Music Review: Clarinets and Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-01T20:47:40Z

Midway through Radio 3's 12-day marathon, the station again teamed up with Kings Place, where the year-long Mozart Unwrapped festival is just getting going. Aurora Orchestra/Collon ? review 2011-01-09T22:30:01Z

I had friends who enjoyed the “Mozart in the Jungle” pilot and said I should enjoy it in the spirit in which it was intended, rather than focusing on what they got wrong. Off-pitch ‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Conducting serious actors among classical-music-industry cliches 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The performance, attractive and polished, didn’t teach us anything about Mozart that we didn’t already know. Review: A Gussied-Up Gala of Mozart Opera Excerpts 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

It's a jolly, neo-classical lark that sort of sounds like Mozart in spots, but not really; Ibert's personal stamp is still predominant. The L.A. Phil makes a lively 'French Connection' at the Bowl 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

But, he said, it was clear that Mozart conducted from the keyboard when performing his piano concertos or leading his operas. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

In a world of high-concept opera productions, Brook also adopted an approach to Mozart that is almost revolutionary in its simplicity: to listen intently to what the music was telling him. Peter Brook: and for my next trick ? 2011-03-16T21:31:01Z

Sometimes Mozart goes for a big effect, as in the bass aria “Why do the nations so furiously rage together,” in which Handel’s agitated orchestra is fortified with military trumpets. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z

But it makes a huge difference to hear a symphony, whether by Mozart or Messiaen, in a lively, inviting concert hall. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Last Tuesday Mr. Schiff played a program that he will perform at Carnegie Hall in October, continuing his survey of the late piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

There was nothing wrong with the Mozart, light and clean, but nothing particularly gripping about it either. Czech guest conductor leads pianist Igor Levit in strong debut at NSO 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

No one, not even Mr. Robertson, I suspect, is suggesting that using a piano in Mozart opera should become standard practice. Music Review: Mozart’s ‘Nozze di Figaro’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-10-28T21:12:53Z

And Christian Tetzlaff, the violin soloist, played with golden radiance, sounding almost all the time like the distilled essence of Mozart except when he accelerated slightly jerkily in some of the fast passages. Review | Michael Tilson Thomas shook up the San Francisco Symphony. So why such standard pieces for their victory lap? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

His aim in Tuesday’s program was clear: to play three Mozart sonatas in such a way that they plausibly anticipated Chopin’s four Ballades, which followed intermission. From Lang Lang, a Technicolor Take on Mozart 2014-02-05T05:00:26Z

Abramovic clearly loves music and once said, “I was always jealous of Mozart,” but she clearly knows nothing about the cultural history of concertgoing. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

She was supposedly Stalin's favorite pianist, and legend has it that a disc of her playing a Mozart piano concerto was on the dictator's record player when he was found dead. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

His 2011 piece “Bliss,” staged in Los Angeles in May, presents the last two minutes of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro,” sung over and over for a solid 12 hours. Perspective | Reexamining opera, one classic at a time 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

In case you've missed it, the New York Symphony is the fictional orchestra in the television series "Mozart in the Jungle." L.A. Phil, Dudamel dive into the 'Mozart in the Jungle' act at the Bowl 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Langrée hasn’t enlivened Mostly Mozart with only guest conductors; he has also brought in major orchestras. Guests Artists Enliven the Mostly Mozart Festival 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tetzlaff conveyed with burnished tone and polished vigor the youthful energy of the concerto, one of five for violin that Mozart composed while a teenager. Work by Schnittke and Haydn at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

That meant making considerable trims to staples like Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” and Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

There’s the Mozart room, where classical music lovers meet. ‘Eventually I knew she was no longer safe alone’: how do we care for family with dementia? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

He was born to a Jewish family in Venice in 1749, became a Catholic priest and a writer, and got to Vienna thanks to a favor from Mozart’s rival Salieri. “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Met 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mozart premiered Don Giovanni in the same year; Haydn channelled his best efforts into other genres. Orlando Paladino ? review 2011-08-26T15:46:43Z

I am also making programs for the next seasons: Mozart, Kurtag, late Schumann. ‘Joy in the Grief’: Musicians Are Making Art in a Pandemic 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

“There are many people in my field who have tried to tell me what I should and shouldn’t do with Mozart or Beethoven, even to this day,” he said. Hahn-Bin Straddles Classical Music and Fashion 2011-02-23T21:15:40Z

Mr. Sprawls also failed to project and encountered vocal problems in the Mozart, but finally achieved some power in the Haydn. Review: St. Thomas Church Season Honors John Scott 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

A recent passion is “Mozart in the Jungle,” which they just watched for several nights while dining on chili mac and chicken parm. The TV-watching public’s long love affair with tray tables 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

On Friday in Damrosch Park, at 8 p.m., the full orchestra will play Mozart’s first and final symphonies. Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

When you hear Mozart in a James Bond film, chances are the villain is using his trusty feed-foes-to-the-sharks contraption. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

After the orchestra’s Bartók/Dvorák/Mozart concert last Saturday, a group of nattily dressed youngsters — high-school-age, to my eye — chattered outside Benaroya Hall about the show. Symphony cellist Efe Baltacigil takes on Dvorák concerto 2014-03-20T21:15:55Z

You know, women can conduct Mozart, and anything else, no. Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy Quiz for balletomanes: A pretty heroine is in love with an impoverished but handsome village lad. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z

He was within his historic rights since that is the instrument, which resembles a modern A clarinet with an extension and slightly curved mouthpiece, for which Mozart composed his concerto. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mozart – unlike most composers before him – was able to make a living independent of an institution or a single aristocratic patron, but he lived or died by what the public wanted to hear. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

Lin opened and closed with Mozart — the Fourth Violin Concerto and the "Haffner Symphony." Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening was mainly mellow and mellifluous, with lovely works by Handel and Mozart, and even subdued for a time, with Irving Fine’s “Serious Song.” Music Review: Martin Frost, Clarinetist, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2013-12-09T21:54:32Z

I like to say that we had Beethoven, Mozart and Bach on the same label.” ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés 2013-07-25T21:36:16Z

And here we are: Mostly Mozart, instead of being expanded, has been eliminated. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

But with limited time available for exploration, I focused on one man — not least because Mozart set some kind of record for changes of Viennese address. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Here he played Mozart with goal-directed momentum and engaging flair. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn dominated its edifying programs in the city last year. Music Review: Takacs Quartet Plays Britten and Janacek at Zankel Hall 2012-04-15T18:18:42Z

That searching quality matched the eloquence of the violinist Augustin Hadelich, whose slight toughness of attack suggested unease under the jollity and poise of Mozart’s surfaces. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

In between, he makes Mozart's intentions his own, focusing on the music to develop the personality of each character in a manner few other composers were capable of. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z

Mr. Langrée, of course, is also the music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, which plays each summer in Geffen Hall. As Geffen Hall’s Renovation Stumbles, Cincinnati Shows the Way 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

The conductor Constantinos Carydis brought a strong take to Mozart’s familiar score, sometimes choosing quite fast tempos, other times stretching out the music’s sublime passages. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Queen of the Night,” very loosely based on Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” combines and amplifies the elements of his previous productions and throws in a few more for good measure. ‘Queen of the Night’ Opens at the New Diamond Horseshoe Club 2013-12-26T21:42:17Z

She pays homage to that popular 1987 Rob Reiner film in her charming, and mysterious, production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” here at the Salzburg Festival. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Thursday’s concert includes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 and Schumann’s “Manfred” Overture, to be performed with members of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The programme of Mozart and Brahms started with the overture to Don Giovanni, anticipating the autumn season opener in which Ticciati will conduct a concert performance of Mozart's opera. SCO/Ticciati 2010-06-21T21:46:00Z

Ms. Miskimmon comes from an opera-loving family in Northern Ireland, and watched her first production, Mozart’s “Magic Flute” when she was just 10. Beleaguered English National Opera Announces New Artistic Director 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Opera enthusiasts are curious about what happens to Count Almaviva’s relationship with his wife after the musically exquisite reconciliation engineered by Mozart. Opera Review: Riccardo Muti in His Element With Further Adventures of Figaro 2011-06-14T11:30:06Z

He also incorporated a brief “Amen” fugue discovered in Berlin in 1960, which was written in Mozart’s hand. ‘It’s good, man’: Seattle Symphony Orchestra concertmaster offers a peek at Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Coming up next year are Wagner, Mozart, Brahms, Strauss and Verdi: more standards. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z

Following a two-piano Milhaud encore, Dudamel added the splash of the overture to “The Abduction From the Seraglio,” still early Mozart but by this point an opera great. L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Her classical selections included the overture to Mozart's Magic Flute and the Largo movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony, which she first heard in New York. Aung San Suu Kyi picks Beatles and Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs 2013-01-27T14:12:00Z

Children grow up learning to dance the jota and boleros and to play works by Mozart and Stravinsky, with flamenco coursing through their veins as well. Valencia’s Newest Sounds of Music 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Only another nomination for Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle serves as a reminder of how wildly wooly the Globes were as recently as last year. TV’s Mainstream Has Changed. The Golden Globes Almost Get That 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

The most famous bird in Mozart’s music is really a man. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Mostly Mozart 2012-08-13T22:44:48Z

She gave the premiere of David Lang’s chorus for 1,000 singers, “the public domain,” in a free concert on Lincoln Center’s plaza to mark Mostly Mozart’s 50th anniversary. Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Better still, they offered a set of striking interpretive insights into thrice-familiar works: They found the proto-Romantic fervor in Mozart, the Mendelssohnian lightness in Brahms, and the operatic exuberance and scope in Mendelssohn. Review | Old is new again in Stradivari Anniversary Concert at Library of Congress 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Vanska, handed No. 40 by the festival’s programmers, suggested opening with Mozart’s other G minor symphony as a way of comparing the two. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z

Since then, the Met has struggled with one of Mozart's masterpieces. Review: One dull `Don Giovanni' replaces another 2011-10-14T19:06:15Z

Since Mr. Langrée took his Mostly Mozart position in 2002, the house orchestra has become a more polished, unified and consistent ensemble. Mostly Mozart’s Final Notes Include ‘Passion’ 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

And where the whole issue of artistic maturity became particularly notable was in the second half of the Requiem, which was finished by others based on Mozart’s sketches. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, it ended with a virtuoso soloist and a well-known string quartet playing Mozart and Brahms. Joyful clarinet meets laid-back quartet: Anthony McGill and Pacifica combine in the Fortas chamber series.

Mr. Denk joined the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and Mr. Langrée for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, a work Brahms admired, and for which he produced a cadenza, performed here. Review: Jeremy Denk in a Full-Blooded Performance at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

He’s like a hard drinking Salieri, stumbling through a world where another Mozart is always threatening to jump out at every corner, wielding his latest book. Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

For the composers he commissions, like Anders Hillborg and Bent Sorensen, these skills are likely to shape a new generation of clarinet writing in much the same way that Stadler’s noted lyricism inspired Mozart. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Mozart himself was a mercurial fellow, and the Israeli-American violinist matched him thrust for trenchant thrust of wit, poetry, and imagination. Shaham's Mozart dazzles Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-26T19:16:04Z

Rather than complain about all the people, I celebrate them while enjoying this town of Mozart and “The Sound of Music” — then get on a train and go two hours south to Hallstatt. Finding ‘back doors’ in today’s Europe 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

We love to sit with a takeaway and listen to Mozart. 'She's 85 and can out-dance me': the joy of the age-gap friendship​ 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Mozart in the Jungle,” a half-hour comedic drama about “sex, drugs and classical music.” Amazon renews ‘Alpha House’ show, greenlights 6 new series 2014-03-31T19:30:50Z

It takes boldness, some would say chutzpah, to mess around with an opera as canonized and beloved as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Don Giovanni." Preview: Classics 'Cymbeline,' 'Don Giovanni' undergo a little remodeling on Seattle stages 2011-01-06T22:09:04Z

Rather, Mr. Langrée — swapping his casual Mostly Mozart look for a tailed tuxedo — presented four works at the hinge of Romanticism and the 20th century, connected through themes of poetry and sensuality. Review: A Conductor Makes His Philharmonic Debut, at Last 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Transparent” and “Mozart in the Jungle” both stand out, in the first place, for what they’re not; neither is about crime, politics or the supernatural. Amazon’s ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ With Backstage Drama 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The part of Susanna is key to the opera, and there is some suggestion that her wit, honesty and resourcefulness made her Mozart's own favourite. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

Framed by Kylián against a Mozart piano concerto, these attitudes are at once foolish and melancholy, as are those of the six women who follow the men. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z

The neglect of Milhaud’s opera may have something to do with the fact that mid-20th-century music had lost the clear mirroring of struggle and reconciliation that Mozart’s and Rossini’s tonal harmonies offered. An Operatic Rarity Picks Up Where Mozart and Rossini Left Off 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Her music is all digital now, but Mozart’s Requiem demands a certain classic something. Gift advice that’ll bring you Knope and joy 2012-11-23T16:00:00Z

A movement from one of his Mozart piano concertos is included in a 2005 compilation called “For the Discriminating Man.” Music Review: The Pianist Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-26T00:49:58Z

It has been around for 97 years, and glamorous, big-name performers continue to flock to Mozart’s birthplace at the scenic foot of the Austrian Alps. Why do music festivals matter? For an answer, America, look to Salzburg 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

I took a tram ride away from the city bustle to the divinely quiet St. Marx Cemetery on Leberstrasse 6-8 in the Third District where Mozart’s coffin was transported by coach. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

When the announcement was made, headlines resurrected yet another moniker for Boulogne: “Black Mozart.” His Name Is Joseph Boulogne, Not ‘Black Mozart’ 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

Here, though elegantly true to the Mozart style, they subtly conveyed what was daring and modern in this music. Music Review: Showcasing the Viola in Updated Mozart 2011-08-03T22:13:31Z

It was the operas, with their difficult-to-pinpoint emotional ambivalence, that turned Mr. Morris on to Mozart as a young dancer. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Now, that’s a silly thing to say because there’s Bach and Mozart. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

The program repeats Saturday evening; Friday’s concert will feature a Mozart symphony in place of the Puts. Review | It’s my last review as The Post’s classical music critic. Here are my parting thoughts on the NSO. 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Even his engaging Mostly Mozart program, heavy on the 18th century and deliciously so, slipped in a smidgen of Ligeti. Making the Harpsichord Modern Again 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gabrielle organized performances of sections of Mozart’s Requiem for the service. ArtsBeat: On Music and Medicine: A Performance by L'Ensemble M?dical 2011-02-17T17:30:07Z

Even in the decidedly feminist solo show “The Other Mozart,” at Here — written and performed by Sylvia Milo — the story of the thwarted, forgotten sister is inextricable from that of her sibling. ‘The Other Mozart’ at Here Arts Center 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

“For example,” she said, “he would write a very eighteenth century tune –almost like Mozart—and then we would set it to electric guitar. And the whole sense of where you were would completely change.” Ellen Kushner: Taking Audiobooks To Another Level 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The smooth interpolations of Mozart’s Mass, smoothly handled, served to stretch the opera’s action into abstract reflections on mercy and hope. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Three more arrangements, of music by Schubert, Mozart and Gluck, followed as encores. Yuja Wang returns, surmounting every technical demand 2011-03-14T16:50:59Z

For all that, the opening concert was resolutely traditional: the festival’s resident Orchestra of St. Luke’s played a Mozart program, with the Symphonies Nos. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart at Caramoor 2010-06-27T21:49:00Z

She will be the soloist in the Met Orchestra’s concert at Carnegie Hall on June 5, singing Mozart’s “Exsultate, jubilate” and the solo in the finale of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

A celebrity duo in celebrity repertoire, as this violinist and pianist join forces for Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

At the 92nd Street Y on Saturday, the company, led by David Parker, attempted to realize scores by Mozart, Morton Feldman and Steve Reich with foot and body percussion. Review: ‘Tap Lab,’ From the Bang Group, Conveys Musical Scores Through Footwork 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The 45-minute program of works by Terence Blanchard, Mozart and Verdi will be performed twice Sunday night before audiences of 150, which will include first responders and Met audience members selected by lottery. Silenced by pandemic, Met Opera to make brief return 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Following the festival’s “Stripped/Dressed” show-and-tell format, before the company performed “Marching Orders” it danced to a recording of Mozart’s “Turkish March” to demonstrate how taps were matching the melody. Review: ‘Tap Lab,’ From the Bang Group, Conveys Musical Scores Through Footwork 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

When he arrived, he ordered cold compresses applied to Mozart’s head, which witnesses said caused the patient to shudder. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

Fortunately, though, the Mozart selections were just unpredictable enough to pique the interest of those Perlman devotees who wanted something a little bit different from the 70-year-old superstar. Itzhak Perlman pleases his many fans at Disney Hall with pieces by Tchaikovsky and Mozart 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The rehearsal was all about fine-tuning the Finale movement of Mozart’s 40th, the composer’s monumental “great G minor” symphony — which Noseda is turning into a stagewide workout. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gutman was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship to research his Mozart biography, which likewise examined the composer through a sociohistorical lens. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

In its performances this week at the David H. Koch Theater, concluding this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the pianist Garrick Ohlsson is featured, and Louis Langrée, the festival’s music director, conducts. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

George Tsypin’s sets are mysteriously transparent cabinet-shaped sculptures that rise from the stage and, when lighted from inside, create the visual effect, in this context, of Mozart’s brain in operation. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Heyward, who made his Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra debut last year and will return this summer, said that he would work to broaden the ensemble’s repertoire, including by programming more works by contemporary composers. Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

For the first time, this reliably classy organization offers a series of summer concerts at home in Alice Tully Hall, opening Wednesday with a program of works by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Having cleared his schedule for the next five months, Mr. Levine, 67, is determined to recuperate and be back at the Met for a new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in October. For James Levine, The Twilight Of a Conductor 2011-05-20T20:25:13Z

Mostly Mozart shows that it can be done. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

Mr. Trifonov will play a Mozart fantasy for piano; the duo performs a Mozart violin sonata. A Young Star And a Master 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Still, in this inspired scene, Mozart evokes an effect he encountered many times in aristocratic ballrooms, where he would hear the music of different dance bands mingling together. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z

Would a youthful Mozart listen to classical music today? Doomed? 2011-05-12T12:33:19Z

Mozart is just the latest in this long line. Dance Review: Bront?s and Medea, Bent Into New Forms 2011-03-17T22:53:06Z

On Tuesday night, Mr. Langrée and the festival orchestra came through with an impressive Mozart program, culminating with a bracing, urgent account of the mighty “Jupiter” Symphony. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

But the unity of playing in a fairly conventional program of Mozart, Shostakovich and Brahms on Tuesday is something not to be found anywhere else. Hagen Quartet shows exquisite unity in rare SoCal concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Led by the French horse choreographer Bartabas -- the only name he uses -- they improvised circular ballet movements to the music of Mozart. Salzburg's Mozart festival features his music. And dancing horses 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

The cycle will be performed in January in nine concerts, several of which will also feature Mr. Barenboim conducting Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard. Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2016-17 Season 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

He practiced Mozart over and over and over. Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

In a late scene of Mozart’s “Zauberflöte,” the hardy bird catcher Papageno, despairing that he may never have a mate, berates the world and decides to end it all. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

His Mozart, Haydn and Bach, for example, sound a bit ponderous by today’s standards. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Germanic repertory like Bach, Mozart and Beethoven “needs much more maturity and growing as a person,” she said. Yuja Wang, Pianist and Fashion Plate 2012-04-08T03:23:10Z

Together, Mozart and Da Ponte changed the whole direction of the operatic form. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival is billing its presentation of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” featuring the conductor Ivan Fischer, the excellent Budapest Festival Orchestra and an admirable cast, as just a “staged concert.” Music Review: Chalky Chorus of Specters Who Dance and Crush 2011-08-05T22:45:16Z

In the first two seasons, Britell followed a fairly confined playbook of the eight-chord motif’s different guises: a beating piano similar to that Mozart fantasia, darkly regal strings and brasses. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Tsien I went to Lincoln Center when I first moved to New York because the Mostly Mozart concerts had air-conditioning. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Hence the more grown-up aesthetic: The archaic cadences of the words and the ornate, cascading illustrations evoke German Romanticism, and also the music of Mozart, which Sendak adored. In Praise of Maurice Sendak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Mozart wrote a playful set of piano variations on the tune known today as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

The double album was a peek into Corea’s musical heart, containing songs he wrote about children decades ago as well as tunes by Mozart, Thelonious Monk and Stevie Wonder, among others. Jazz great Chick Corea with 23 Grammy Awards dies at 79 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mozart was born in 1756 and lived in the city until age 25, when he left after a falling out with the reigning archbishop. Why Salzburg Is a Must-Visit for Classical Music 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

The opera pokes delightful fun at Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but it also cunningly ponders why millions of us music lovers are drawn to live modern lives in the thrall of centuries-old music. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

On the international circuit composers like Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini and Strauss have been and will continue to be Ms. DiDonato’s bread and butter, with Donizetti, Berlioz and Massenet increasingly part of the mix. Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z

Haydn — then perhaps the greatest living composer, as Mozart had died the year before — agreed to teach him in Vienna. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Ms. Peck, a prodigious virtuoso whose musicality is her most renowned asset, last week made her debut in the central role of the Mozart classic “Divertimento No. 15.” Women Fill New York City Ballet’s Season With Splendor 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Nigel refers to it as a “Mach” piece – a fusion of Mozart and Bach – and intends it as part of a musical trilogy in D minor, which he calls “the saddest of all keys”. Five Easy Pieces at 50: a troubling yet thrilling arrival of a new leading man 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z

But there was certainly nothing chilly about the music making or the repertory: a drama-free evening of genial, lyrical pieces by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Kicks Off a Summer Series 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Over the next few years, Cliburn’s international popularity continued as he recorded pieces ranging from Mozart to a concerto by American Edward McDowell. Van Cliburn, American Classical Pianist, Dies 2013-02-27T20:06:33Z

There are few Mozart interpreters as sublime as the pianist Mitsuko Uchida, who endows nearly every note she plays with exquisite, crystalline import. The Week in Arts: Dorrance Dance, Janet Jackson, Tintoretto 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

When the New York Philharmonic rehearsed his First Symphony, he was rejected as not up to Mozart’s genius. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

Where the first half of the program showed Mozart and Haydn at their most engaging, the second half highlighted each composer’s ingenuity. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall 2013-06-03T20:02:26Z

The program was fully devoted to canonical pieces by Mozart, apart from the opening work, Ms. Luque’s “Theme for Music for Life NYC.” Music Review: New York Women?s Ensemble at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-01T23:46:05Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival is now in many ways unrecognizable from its ancestor, “Midsummer Serenades — A Mozart Festival,” which began in 1966 when Lincoln Center’s new theaters opened, complete with air-conditioning. Review: A Gussied-Up Gala of Mozart Opera Excerpts 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

His “Written on Skin” is likely to dominate the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York in August. Review: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Careens Across the Centuries at Aldeburgh 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Music does matter, and the New York City Ballet Orchestra played everything wonderfully, Mozart in particular. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

I was disappointed by the “Symphonies of Wind Instruments,” but nonetheless I left the concert hall, after the generous Mozart, with a general sense of enjoyment. Review | Homage to the Classical: NSO offers Mozart, jolly Stravinsky and Josefowicz 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, take in Mozart’s K. 428 quartet, Bartók’s fourth, and Mendelssohn’s precious A minor work. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

This is Mozart at his most searching and personal, with a symphonic weight and lyrical profundity that anticipate Beethoven. Mitsuko Uchida's makes for eloquent Mozart with CSO 2011-01-28T18:48:33Z

Considering the importance of Mozart and his symphonic output, this is a record of neglect. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

Part of his legacy was carried on by his student Beethoven and his younger friend Mozart. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z

It boded well for future artistic innovation at Mostly Mozart to see Mr. Langrée mixing it up with the inquisitive Mr. Gerstein. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Following this with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor might seem too much contrast, but this concerto also feels dark. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival concludes with a performance of one of its namesake’s most powerful works, the monumental REQUIEM. The Week Ahead: Aug. 21 ? 27 2011-08-19T19:54:02Z

Even with all the changes and innovations in programming, the festival, for better or worse, remains at heart a celebration of “the inspiration and genius of Mozart,” as Ms. Moss states in a program note. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

Mr. Greilsammer, who also plays standard fare like the complete Mozart piano concertos and sonatas splendidly, is hardly asserting that all recital programs should follow this model. Review: Searching for a Path Out of a Musical Labyrinth 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

May Haydn forgive me, but one of the Vienna Four just had to go, and Haydn’s great legacy was carried out by his friend Mozart, his student Beethoven and the entire Classical movement. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Sure, and Mozart was just a hack piano player from Salzburg. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z

The following night's Mozart revival was to be dedicated to him, we learned later, but still this seemed an omission. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

Without any intervention by Nazi potentates, the refreshing and emotionally uplifting “waltzing bliss” was a perfect fit with National Socialist propaganda, in particular its broadcasting policy — as were Mozart and Lehár. The Complex History Behind a Vienna Philharmonic Tradition 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

In the first half works by Boccherini and Philip Glass ventured down to the underworld; in the second half, Stockhausen and Mozart reached for the stars. Music Review: The Knights Open the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts Series 2013-06-26T21:56:37Z

That litany might also include some of the works of Friedrich Gulda, a star pianist particularly famous for his Mozart interpretations, who improvised and composed with an ear to jazz influences. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Not Wagner but Mozart will accompany the Bruckner at Carnegie Hall, in the form of six piano concertos and two sinfonias concertante. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

And it was as a keyboardist that the young Mozart dazzled Europe, with few reports about his talents as a violinist. ArtsBeat: Mozart Never Made It to America, but His Violin and Viola Are On the Way 2013-05-29T19:38:44Z

"It balances over the course of the season so people don't get used to a steady diet of Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart." L.A. Philharmonic's Andrew Bain takes spotlight in 'Brilliant Brass' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Tuesday night, Morlot did, at least, become sunshine, with bits of Mendelssohn's merry "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the composer's cheerful "Italian" Symphony framing Mozart's sublime Clarinet Concerto. Sun shines on Hollywood Bowl guest conductor Ludovic Morlot 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

The orchestra ended with an exciting account of Mozart’s “Linz” Symphony. Two New York Orchestras Return With Acts of Renewal 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

But Uchida, 74, is an artist who returns to the familiar, especially the works of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as part of a lifelong argument for the benefits of repeated examination. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

But if his fastidious lyricism endowed his Mozart and his Rossini with grace as well as drive, his ability to twist a score taut also gave his Mendelssohn, and even his Debussy, immense cumulative force. A Conductor’s Career, Cut Short, Still Blazes on Recordings 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

Combining a fresh biographical concept, unusual talent, imaginative programming and top-flight music making, this is a release no Mozart lover will want to miss. ‘The Weber Sisters’ throw fresh light on Mozart vocalism 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

After all, Mozart fell in love with one woman and then, when it didn’t work out, wound up marrying her younger sister. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

In it, Mr. Rosen, building on the work of Donald Tovey and other musicologists, set forth the structural principles that lend the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven its characteristic texture. Charles Rosen, Pianist, Polymath and Author, Dies at 85 2012-12-11T01:24:22Z

In the first of a three-part series on Italian opera, Pappano traces its roots in ducal palaces before looking at work by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart and Rossini. Panorama: A Very British Hero 2010-05-24T05:45:00Z

But it’s hard to listen to this eloquent, passionate opera and hear it as merely a job that Mozart got through. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

I mean it as a compliment that, listening to Mr. Goode, you forgot that this work, like all the Mozart concertos, was intended partly as a show-off piece for the soloist. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z

Seattle Opera plans a free, "Magic Flute"-themed open house on Saturday, to coincide with the opening of the Mozart opera. Free 'Flute-apalooza' at McCaw on Saturday 2011-05-07T00:05:52Z

With Schoenberg and Mozart, Vienna remained on his mind this week in L.A. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

It was as if you sat a five-year-old down at a piano and she played Mozart. Could Quvenzhane Wallis make Oscar history? 2012-10-18T23:43:45Z

The winners, students age 7-22, will play music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and others in small ensembles. Tonkonogui Award winners in recital Saturday 2010-08-25T22:38:00Z

Churches, castles and town halls echoed with the footsteps of Habsburg monarchs, Mozart and Napoleon’s armies. Nothing blue about a birthday bike trip along the Danube 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Even so, “Mozart and Contemporaries” came off as an unbroken, unfurling, hypnotically broad, almost dreamlike silk of sound, inward-looking and wistful in both major and minor keys, in both andante and allegro. Review: A Pianist Explores Mozart the Late Bloomer 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Migos, “Culture” This Atlanta trio raps in mesmerizing staccato triplets, blasting new life into an old idea that’s been attributed to Mozart, Debussy and Miles: Music is the space between the words. Perspective | Best music of 2017: Cardi B paints the world ‘Bodak Yellow’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

When the ragtag inhabitants of this realm sing Mozart’s choruses affirming brotherhood, for a moment they seem to have insights into the human dilemma. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

The slow movement — a homage to Mozart — is clever, too, but perhaps longer than need be. BSO breathes new fire into familiar classics in Sunday matinee 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

But the revelation, was that, after the blackout, he recovered, his playing improved, his muscles relaxed and Mozart flowed. Prize-winning pianist caught between anger and ecstasy 2013-06-24T17:29:12Z

Mozart’s great comedy “Le Nozze di Figaro,” which opens the Metropolitan Opera’s season on Monday, begins with hopefulness, dissolves into chaotic upheaval and, rescued at the last minute, concludes with reconciliation, peace and celebration. Season Rescued, the Met Tackles an Oddly Resonant ‘Figaro’ 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

She went on to perform 199 times at the Metropolitan Opera, performing all the major Verdi roles, as well as roles from Mozart, Puccini and others. Joel, Santana to receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-09-12T16:31:51Z

But then, in early August, the Chinese dance-theater production “Under Siege” came to the Koch, as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival. What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

In a school music class, her voice was noticed, which led to singing in a church choir and learning the sacred repertory of Schubert, Mozart and more. A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mozart managed to transpose universal laws of nature into his music. Believe it or not: News of the weird from the year in classical music 2010-12-22T21:46:07Z

“The music is end-to-end gorgeous, and the Mozart touch is just wonderful,” Mr. Morris said. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The new Los Angeles Opera production of Mozart’s “The Abduction From the Seraglio” has two intermissions. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Laredo began with Mozart’s Overture to “Così Fan Tutte,” a buoyant, lively performance in which the strings were especially good, playing with full-bodied sound and solid execution. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z

In fact, he made himself essential with a crisp attention to sound and pulse in the Hearne, to eloquence and fun in the Mozart and to exuberance in Mendelssohn's symphony. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

A century separates the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms, but at the emotional heart of each sits a slow movement of rapt, bucolic calm. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

“He wanted to show that the classical procedure he found in Mozart or Haydn could fit a modern world, a more ambiguous world,” Mr. Botstein said in a phone interview. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The format of string quartet with an extra viola was unusual when Mozart composed this work, a masterpiece of restless character and symphonic breadth. Music Review: Brentano String Quartet Plays Hadyn, Mozart and Bartok 2012-12-17T22:55:08Z

Ms. Tindall had played in various ensembles and Broadway pit orchestras and was writing regularly for publications including The New York Times when “Mozart in the Jungle” appeared. Blair Tindall, Whose Music Memoir Scandalized, Dies at 63 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

Take Chances In recent years, Mostly Mozart has taken a chance by mounting staged concert operas. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

Bassoonist Andrew Brady, a sophomore at Colburn School Conservatory in Los Angeles, will perform in the Mozart work. See Seattle Symphony for free 2011-01-06T20:15:05Z

It opens in heaven, with Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven playing Scrabble and squabbling like sitcom characters. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

In the finale, as Mozart unleashes starbursts of textures each more brilliant than the last, Bezuidenhout’s sense of exhilaration is contagious. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The works were treated like cheap potboilers, subjected to the kinds of cuts, interpolations and fudgings unthinkable in Mozart, Beethoven or Wagner. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

In school I learned the names Bach, Mozart and Beethoven but heard nothing of their music.” Music: Standing Small, Singing Big, All Sulfur and Zest 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z

Mr. Kahane discussed another issue: the practice of leading a Mozart symphony from the keyboard. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

There’s nothing more innovative in this program than Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Asked if there if there was a special highlight of his career, without pausing he cited a performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the theater in Prague where Mozart conducted the work’s 1787 premiere. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

With “The Magic Flute,” Mozart elevated the singspiel — a German-language form blending spoken dialogue, music and comic elements — to extraordinary heights. Mozart’s Way With Singspiels 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

They also played an early violin sonata by Mozart that hardly ever turns up in performance. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Mozart, he said, understood this piecemeal approach to performance of his works, with not all the movements all of the time, and so what was good enough for Mozart was good enough for him. Michael Bukht obituary 2011-08-07T17:29:31Z

It’s always heartening to see lots of eager children in the audience when the Metropolitan Opera presents its family-friendly version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” during the holidays. Review: ‘Magic Flute’ Welcomes Children Back to the Met 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

The “Prague” must be every opera lover’s favorite Mozart symphony. Review: New York Philharmonic Gives Mozart His Due 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In addition, choreographer Kyle Abraham and composer Jlin will present an electronic version of the Mozart composition transformed into “Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth.” Lincoln Center emerges from pandemic with summer festival 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

Mutual benefits multiply, as the two share joints, prank the police and bond over Mozart and Aretha Franklin. ‘The Upside’ Review: A Billionaire and His Buddy Find Reasons to Be Cheerful 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Here I am trying to recreate the spirit of an 18th-century performance of a Mozart symphony, and I’m using an iPad.’ Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

"Amadeus is an opera in many ways - with Mozart's music as another major character." Chichester 'ready for next 50 years' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The festival’s production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” a traveling staging originally seen at the Komische Oper in Berlin, could shake up the field as much as the challenging new works. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Mozart used a solo trombone; Verdi essentially imported brass fanfares from “Aida.” A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

Making Mozart and Schumann pants roles sung by mezzo-sopranos proved a touching touch. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Virgil, Shakespeare, Mozart, Balanchine were all heavily derivative. 2010-01-21T06:42:00Z

Last month, Amazon posted the entire first season — 10 episodes — of a new series about classical music, “Mozart in the Jungle.” ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

Firm of tone, sure of intonation, round of phrase and rhythmically propulsive, they let Mozart speak for himself. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Now as then, he went for gutsy, big-boned, large-scale conceptions of Mozart, nothing precious or excessively polite. Some seriously gutsy Mozart stands out at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

“You can detect how brilliant Mozart was writing individual parts instead of vertically. Mendelssohn’s ‘Songs Without Words’ have those beautiful paintings in them. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

For its American debut, the 40-member group, along with the dancer Martí Corbera, presented the program “Dance of the Sun,” pairing a suite from Lully’s “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” and Mozart’s Symphony in G Minor. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

As an instrumentalist, Mozart is mostly remembered as a keyboard virtuoso, but he was also a talented string player. Music Review: Isabelle Faust Solos for Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:27:23Z

The orchestral program that Pasternack lined up in some haste late this summer ranges from Haydn and Mozart to Penderecki and Ives. The University of Washington School of Music offers eclectic lineup 2010-10-20T23:30:00Z

The house band at Mostly Mozart has two programs this week, but this is potentially the more interesting. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Benjamin Britten was an acclaimed interpreter of Mozart, and it was his affinity for Henry Purcell that provided the focus for the highlight of the opening weekend's concerts. Bath MozartFest – review 2012-11-12T17:28:09Z

Some two decades after his Bach discovery, Mr. Harnoncourt admitted Mozart to his pantheon: “Bach and Mozart,” he said, “weren’t mortals.” An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mozart’s great comedy returns in Richard Eyre’s production, for the first of two runs this season. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Marc Minkowski, leading the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 33, gave a more vital sense of that composer than did the performance of “Don Giovanni.” Alexander Pereira Leaves Austrian Festival for La Scala 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The world in which a woman can find earnest, enduring love—that did exist, and Mozart saw it and knew it in his heart. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The choice still seemed slightly odd, especially with an abundance of Stravinsky looming in this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Music Review: Danes Deliver Rare Works by a Native Son 2011-07-29T21:59:08Z

But to interpret this, you have to be faithful to what Mozart has already written. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Yes, Mozart was among the most performed composers at the Proms in their first half-century – but he achieved that prominence through the inclusion of countless operatic arias and concertos, rather than his symphonies. The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies 2012-07-26T17:30:01Z

After walking the picket line earlier in the week, the players were thrilled to be onstage at Oglethorpe for a rehearsal and to be joined by members of the Atlanta Mozart Choir. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra struggles during second lockout in two years

And of course, there’s plenty of Mozart, too. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

And then there is the troubling Nazi component of The Sound of Music - a reminder, reinforced by the Swastika flag and storm troopers on stage, that not only Mozart, but Hitler, too, was Austrian. Sound of Music comes to Salzburg 2011-11-22T12:01:05Z

In 1931, for instance, on their honeymoon in Salzburg, where they had gone to hear Mozart, Mrs. Christie required an emergency appendectomy. George Christie Dies at 79; Steward of His Family’s Glyndebourne Legacy 2014-05-13T04:28:58Z

In addition to four staged performances of Mozart's "Magic Flute," musicians will appear in smaller spaces, from churches to a museum. ArtsBeat: Simon Rattle to Leave Berlin Philharmonic in 2018 2013-01-10T17:09:50Z

Other offerings include a Mozart Marathon, for which the pianist Fazil Say will perform a string of Mozart sonatas on several different dates. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

But according to Mr. Hogwood, “the theory that Mozart’s music was simply awaiting the invention of the Steinway is wrong.” Christopher Hogwood, Early-Music Devotee, Dies at 73 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

As a child she sang "a bit too loudly" in her primary school choir and was a "precocious" pianist who could compose in the style of Mozart or Debussy when aged 10. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z

There is plenty of Mozart on the docket this month at Lincoln Center. Music Review: Showcasing the Viola in Updated Mozart 2011-08-03T22:13:31Z

That slightly reedy tone, telling in bel canto, sounds severe when he turns to Mozart's Tito. Juan Diego Fl?rez - review 2011-01-21T18:07:28Z

There he directed the annual summer festival from 1948, leading operatic Mozart that Virgil Thomson once called “perfection” in its “animation and orchestral delicacy,” and venturing into Gluck and Rameau. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Another was Saint-Saëns’s Janus-like creative identity: he helped to revive interest in Bach and Mozart through performance and emulation, but he also gave premieres of Liszt’s works and borrowed from them freely. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z

Still, Mr. Levine’s gifts in the Mozart through Weill repertory are generously displayed here. A Maestro?s Four-Decade Evolution 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

He came of age at the end of the Baroque period and lived into the Classical age of Haydn and Mozart. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

There are few surer guarantees of quality in classical music than the combination of Mr. Ax and Mozart, and Mr. Ax offered his usual elegant, understated virtuosity. Review: A Stirring Premiere at the Philharmonic, With Perfect Timing 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

On the program: “Festival Dance,” “Grand Duo” and “V” in Guangzhou and the “Eleven” and “Double” sections from “Mozart Dances” and the work “Grand Duo.” ArtsBeat: Mark Morris Dance Group Headed to China 2012-03-01T19:54:00Z

Evidence also comes from an undated document by Mozart’s son Karl Thomas and from a description — again, decades later — by a Viennese doctor who spoke to the physicians who treated Mozart in his final days. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

When he played Mozart and late Schumann at the piano for me, Widmann rejoiced in finding the moments of acidulous dissonance, unresolved tensions and modernist style-clashes in music I might have thought I knew. A guide to Jörg Widmann's music 2012-10-08T14:22:33Z

On the first, the superb violinist Christian Tetzlaff is soloist in a Mozart rondo, Bartok’s Second Concerto and a new concerto by the brilliant British composer Harrison Birtwistle. Looking Ahead: Time to Turn the Page 2010-12-30T23:28:26Z

“When I first was appointed, I tried to persuade her to come back to the Met to sing a role in a Mozart opera,” he said. You’re Unfired: Kathleen Battle Is Returning to the Met After 22 Years 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

A threat from an Islamic extremist group in Gaza, received by United National officials during the middle of the Mozart symphony, ultimately forced a hasty exit by the players after some post-concert speeches. Abroad: In Gaza, Concert Leaves Echoes of Normalcy 2011-05-04T13:45:05Z

The Met was shown up even by the Mostly Mozart Festival in August, when Ivan Fischer conducted “Don Giovanni” with the Budapest Festival Orchestra at the Rose Theater. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 is also on the program, which will begin and end with works by Wagner: first “Siegfried Idyll,” then the Prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde.” The Week Ahead: June 13 ? 19 2010-06-11T13:31:00Z

To open the second half of the program, Mr. Crawford turned over a reduced orchestra to the violinist Monica Huggett, who led Mozart’s Concerto No. 4 from the fiddle. Music Review: American Classical Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-10T21:55:31Z

The orchestra approached her about Sunday’s concert of short, mostly Boston-related works about a month and a half ago, offering her three Mozart pieces to choose from. Boston’s Mayor Trades City Hall for Symphony Hall 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Diana does her best to keep up, first guessing that she’s hearing Mozart and then saying, in an effort to be charming, that she was “close.” Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“It needs to be alive, and it needs to be flexible. Mozart is the farthest thing from stiffness.” At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Louis Langrée, Mostly Mozart’s music director, is adept at cheer, and led the festival’s house orchestra in a tender performance, in English, on Friday evening. Review: Haydn’s ‘Creation’: The Birth of All, With High Hopes at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

The plan calls for beefing up the offerings of Mostly Mozart and the annual fall White Light Festival to make up for the loss of the summer festival. The 10 Biggest Upheavals of Lincoln Center’s Tumultuous Year 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

The ensemble’s Mostly Mozart programs include folk music from eastern Georgia, in which two melismatic voices sing over a moving drone bass, and complex contrapuntal works from Guria, in western Georgia. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

The station will play at least one piece by Mozart every hour, 24 hours a day, from Jan. 1 to 31. 31 Days of Mozart on Classical KING FM 2010-12-29T21:17:04Z

Bringing that watery, faint sound into a concert hall requires courage and vulnerability, qualities that were very much present at that Mostly Mozart recital. Bow Aquiver, a Calligraphic Violinist Comes to Lincoln Center 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Some of the phrases in the Mozart felt clipped, and on some exposed entrances the intonation was tentative. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

But placing it at the opening of a program dominated by Haydn and Mozart works isolated the new piece. Review: 19 Female Composers Start to Mark a Century of Suffrage 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Berg did, because Berg was such a genius in the theater that he knew, like Mozart, that sometimes you have to break the rules to be more impactful. ‘Wozzeck,’ the 20th Century’s Most Influential Opera, Turns 100 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

Curators determined that this portrait does not depict Mozart. Are Those Pictures Really Mozart? 2013-02-06T16:16:58Z

The sounds of klezmer, blues, Broadway, Motown, Mozart and girl-group pop, among many others, pinpoint each character but also serve as expressive vehicles for the larger ideas the story is assembling. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The Andante contains some of the most dissonant passages Mozart ever wrote, but here they glided by smoothly without particular notice. Piano prodigy doesn’t miss a note in knuckle-busting program, but is there more? 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Many of the other artists were backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra - including Clean Bandit, who played their classical-dance mash-up Mozart's House before segueing into the number one single Rather Be. BBC Music Awards watched by 3.9m 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

As a child, she was drawn to the lyricism of his preludes for piano, even as she followed a strict conservatory regimen of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Don’t play Mozart at the birth or Whales Mating at bedtime or hang planets over cradles. How to get your kids to 18, sane and not hating you 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” on the other hand, is set in the woods virtually next door. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

“Mass,” a rebuke to Mozart Mass settings Stravinsky acquired and played through in Los Angeles, seemingly placed greater value on musical ingenuity than on textual integrity. Music Review: The Trinity Choir’s Stravinsky Festival 2013-04-30T20:03:18Z

But it was in fact an indicator of the direction he's continued to pursue in Go Kart Mozart. Go Kart Mozart: Go Kart Mozart Are On the Hot Dog Streets – review 2012-06-21T14:29:02Z

This Jones served as organist and choirmaster at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, where, at the end of a distinguished, four-decade career, he was succeeded by Thomas Attwood, who had studied in Vienna with Mozart. CD reviews: Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s latest Mozart is a missed opportunity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Throughout “Mozart Dances,” Mark Morris emerges as the most artfully musical choreographer alive. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The likes of Gluck, Mozart and Haydn created a whole new style based on, essentially, four major chords. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

Bach performed in coffeehouses, and Mozart was famously thrilled when the audience burst into applause in the middle of his “Paris” symphony. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Don Giovanni had just gone to hell, and the rest of the characters in Mozart’s opera of that name were singing of his final moments. ArtsBeat Blog: Watching a La Scala Opening on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T23:05:49Z

After all, Mozart’s socially abrasive comic operas, in which the upper class is undone by servants, started the tradition of composers biting the bourgeois hands that feed them. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

But when he’s onstage for that series, he’s almost always someone else as well: in this case Leopold Mozart, father of the much more famous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 9-15 2012-11-08T23:27:07Z

Earlier on this night, as part of the Prestige Series that presents younger artists, Gesa Luecker, a thoughtful German pianist, played works by Mozart, Liszt and Schumann. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z

Led by the artistic director of the series, K. Scott Warren, the orchestra played the Mozart works with a smoothness that verged on blandness, and the choir sang with fullness but not much incisiveness. Music Review: ‘My Soul Rejoices’ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola 2012-10-22T04:23:03Z

A version of this review appears in print on January 25, 2014, on page C5 of the with the headline: A Firebird, A Mermaid And a Bit Of Mozart. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z

He largely avoided Germany after the war, but the most performed composers in his first decade in Boston were Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Brahms. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

When he first arrived as music director in 2009, Dudamel's Mozart bounced off walls as well, by turn vivacious and lyrically affected. With Dudamel and Mozart, there's life in the old 'Linz' yet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Staten Island has to make do with an indoor chamber concert of Mozart, Grieg and Spohr on Wednesday, at the Music Hall of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace. Classical & Opera Listings for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Still, it was encouraging to see Mostly Mozart trying something so unusual for its gala opening. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

The Mozart encore was an appeal to memories of this orchestra’s storied past. Music Review: Joshua Bell Leads Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 2012-04-13T22:22:08Z

Instead of a stuffy lineup of Mozart’s “greatest concert arias,” this program is full of risk-taking and playfulness. ‘The Weber Sisters’ throw fresh light on Mozart vocalism 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The stylistic flexibility of the Philharmonia players allows them to adapt to the nuances of the Mozart edition. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

“The opera pokes delightful fun at Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but it also cunningly ponders why millions of us music lovers are drawn to live modern lives in the thrall of centuries-old music.” Steven Stucky dies at 66: Pulitzer winner, longtime composer for the L.A. Phil 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

The music ranges from Haydn to Berg by way of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, with generous helpings of French repertory. Music Festival on Arctic Archipelago in Norway 2010-06-25T19:03:00Z

The collection offers a rich variety of solo pieces, chamber works and concertos by Beethoven, Berio, Chopin, Mozart, Takemitsu, Stravinsky, Schoenberg and more — in probing, lucid, often exhilarating performances. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

Schade, whose specialty is Mozart, was adequate but not exceptional in both categories. Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera 2012-05-19T10:33:09Z

It would, however, be silly to describe him, as Lucia van der Post does on the jacket of his new book, as the Mozart of scent. The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur by Jean-Claude Ellena – review 2012-07-16T23:05:29Z

The portrait of the conductor is more ludicrous that the parody of him in the new Amazon TV comedy series "Mozart in the Jungle." El Sistema founder, Gustavo Dudamel are targets of scathing new book 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

While searching for models, one attracted me above all: the miraculous sequence of Mozart concertos, which lifted the then-novel form to a degree of unmatched perfection. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

Still, for all the fresh creative thinking, the concerts of the Mostly Mozart orchestra at David Geffen Hall remained, over all, timidly conventional. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

I was clearly in the minority on Tuesday morning, as Mozart, the singers and Ms. Taymor won over a house full of young fans. Music Review: Mozart for the Little Ones, Where the Special Effects Are Always 3-D 2010-12-22T15:42:41Z

Alan Gilbert, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, was visiting the orchestra next door, conducting a rehearsal of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in the pit at the Metropolitan Opera. At Lincoln Center, Cultural Institutions Team Up 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Nicotra eventually ran afoul of the law after selling the fake Mozart manuscript to Walter Toscanini, who persuaded detectives in Milan to investigate the case. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

“This is very, very fine music,” Stern says, “a major piece. It is very much of its time — Mozart, Weber, Schubert — and then there are some harmonic twists that nobody else does.” A 190-year-old score, written in Prague and locked in a wooden box, gets its world premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Now a transgender baritone, she will make her U.S. debut as the title character in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the Tulsa Opera in performances Friday and Sunday. Transgender baritone Lucia Lucas makes US debut 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Who else but a jealous rival would have seen to it that ‘Figaro’ closed so promptly, that Mozart got only a pittance from the Emperor as a minor functionary, any number of things.” Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

During one memorable Australian tour I wore a complete 18th-century Mozart costume including powdered wig, silk frock coat, breeches, tights and buckled shoes. Elton John: 'Bestival seems to be a people's festival' 2013-01-30T21:00:03Z

It wasn’t so long ago this season — just January — that the Metropolitan Opera’s programming was about as classic as it gets: tried-and-true works by Verdi, Puccini and Mozart. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival is presenting “Schubertiade Remix,” a radical re-creation of the legendary musical soirees in Vienna featuring Schubert and his fellow artists, often hosted by prosperous admirers of the struggling composer. Mostly Mozart Remixes a Schubert Soiree 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

If the Black Eyed Peas, the creators of nonsensical hits like “Boom Boom Pow” and “My Humps,” qualify as music, then any kid with a Barbie Mix It Up DJ Turntable is Mozart. The most hated bands of the last 20 years: “Like Nickleback before there was Nickelback” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

And Mozart is hardly being ignored: The festival will open on July 14 with “Divine Connection,” a staged work that weaves Mozart’s Requiem and music by Arvo Pärt. At Mostly Mozart Festival This Summer, Lots of Beethoven 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

When he updates a classic work, he helps us to imagine ourselves capable of the spiritual growth that Handel proffers his Caesar and Mozart his Count. Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mockingbirds of the Concert Hall At the Mostly Mozart Festival audiences for concerts featuring works inspired by bird calls can join bird-watching tours in Central Park to hear the real thing first. An Imperiled Legacy 2012-08-03T18:41:18Z

The sculptor Henry Moore designed a staging of “Don Giovanni” by Mozart in 1967 that included abstract shapes made of foam rubber. A Chagall Curtain Needs a New Home With a Tall Ceiling 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

Don't say: "Thank God he died at 35 or it would be wall-to-wall Mozart till March." Pass notes No 2,892: Mozart 2010-12-05T21:00:00Z

That epic war is the subject of “Under Siege,” an elaborate dance-theater work by the Chinese choreographer Yang Liping, part of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

At the Kaplan, part of the Mostly Mozart Festival’s candlelit series A Little Night Music, he brought a scholarly understanding and clear passion for the music to both his playing and his engaging commentary. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z

This week, Mr. Bavouzet returns to the Mostly Mozart Festival, where he will play Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto with the festival orchestra on Tuesday and Wednesday. Music Review: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at International Keyboard Institute 2013-07-28T18:57:26Z

The director Madeline Sayet promises a production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” that takes its inspiration from the natural landscape of the Cooperstown region. Classical Music Listings for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Hosted by Hot Boy Dancing Spot, the Lovely Jonjo and Hello Mozart will be bringing the sweaty house, pop and disco vibes. Clubs picks of the week 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

The first day of rehearsals had just ended for his new show, “The Black Clown,” which is premièring in New York at the Mostly Mozart Festival, at Lincoln Center, on July 24th. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Leonard Bernstein struggled early in his career with making Mozart convincing, although he became great Mozartean later on. Dudamel and Wang deliver a 'Rhapsody in Blue' for the Hollywood Bowl history books 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Getty Images I came up with the idea for this play after reading a lot about Mozart. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z

"But we only have two tracks, Mozart's House and the outro, which features Dvorak." The classic pop of Clean Bandit 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

For a long encore, he improvised, having explained to his audience that he regrets the decline of this honorable practice, at which Liszt, Beethoven and Mozart excelled. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z

His spare staging set Mozart’s opera of rebellion and forgiveness in a developing nation today, with a brutal police presence but a caring leader. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

One jarring touch is the insertion of a Mozart song not from the opera for Papagena to sing on her first appearance. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z

Mr. Smedvig’s solo albums include works by Bach, Telemann, Haydn and Mozart. Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Next weekend, OMF finishes the season with music by Schubert, Stravinsky, Mozart and Ravel. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-08-24T21:57:04Z

The high point of the movie is a harpsichord and Stratocaster duet played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Jimi Hendrix, a nicely conceived and executed demonstration of how genius recognizes genius. ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Be Adequate to Each Other 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Appearing under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, this engaging foursome performs the third of Mozart’s “Prussian” quartets, Beethoven’s titanic Op. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Le Mozart Noir” — “the black Mozart,” as Saint-Georges, who died in 1799, is sometimes called — will not only present a rare opportunity to hear two violin concertos by the elusive figure. Concert brings to light forgotten works by 18th-century black composer 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Occasionally in the Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, there was a sense of self-regard about a phrase, an exaggerated quality, as if it were being played within quotation marks. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z

And then there is music, Bach and Mozart, that you start playing when you are very young, and they stay with you until the day you die. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Tuesday’s program of crowd pleasers by, yes, Beethoven and Mozart featured inspired moments and awkward ones. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

An impossible challenge: Choose a single track from the dozens in Robert Levin’s tirelessly lively, eloquent collection of Mozart’s piano sonatas, recorded on their composer’s own fortepiano. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The music is the “Perpetual Tango” from Erik Satie’s “Sports et Divertissements,” a suite of piano pieces to which Mr. Morris choreographed a dance last year for the Mostly Mozart Festival. The Pragmatist’s Progress: Mark Morris Adapts to Creating Online 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

It is little more than a passing moment, a sober yet light-footed march in the third act of Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo.” This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Let’s talk about the admirable and clever nod to Mozart’s Requiem part of the overall show’s score. Empire: season two, episode four – Be True sends the Lyon clan to church 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

But the Mozart albums have received more universal acclaim. This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

You can find another McClatchy rendering of these lines in his new book, “Seven Mozart Librettos,” recently published by W. W. Norton. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

“I’m a little bit scared of Mozart, actually,” Mr. Sjolin confided. This String Quartet Has a Line of Craft Beer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven return to heaven unfulfilled. 'Classical Style' at Ojai Music Festival draws on wit, wisdom 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

"Delight" is perhaps the only word strong enough to describe the response that Gil Shaham's performance in the Seattle Symphony's "Mainly Mozart" series on Thursday evening evoked in the audience, this critic included. Shaham's Mozart dazzles Seattle Symphony audience 2012-10-26T19:16:04Z

The concerto was actually sketched out a couple of years before Mozart finally wrote it, when he needed something for a concert that might bring in money. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

For Mozart, she ventured just a touch over the border of tasteful elegance, which is exactly where the concerto belongs and seldom is. It's nice to have L.A. Phil 'family' like Yuja Wang, Salonen 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Think of those “Mozart for Babies” CDs and the perception that classical music exists to form a soothing background. Lindsey Stirling’s Music Combines Classical and Dance 2014-05-02T22:32:38Z

Mr. Laredo ended the program with a stylish and energetic account of Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony, a compact, exuberant piece that Mozart wrote during a trip to Paris in a futile search for a job. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z

For over a year he spends his days listening to Mozart in his lair, and his nights meticulously mapping every vine on the estate, some of whose Pinot Noir sells for $10,000 a bottle. Amazing grapes 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mitten-clad children ice skate around the Mozart statue, vendors in wooden stalls sell things like roasted chestnuts and mulled wine and handicrafts and cartoonish nativity figures. 36 Hours: Salzburg, Austria 2011-12-14T18:10:20Z

A program for young listeners, "Mozart's Magnificent Voyage," is at 11 a.m. Seattle Symphony's 'Mainly Mozart' program includes stately Requiem 2011-01-12T22:45:05Z

Though it was the first of Mozart's operas to be performed in Britain, La Clemenza di Tito is now the least known of his mature stage works. This week's new live music 2013-01-26T06:00:08Z

First, however, came this performance of Mozart's Idomeneo, which he was originally scheduled to conduct. Idomeneo 2010-08-23T14:15:00Z

Scholars have also examined accounts of Mozart’s ailments in letters written by family members, especially his father, Leopold, to uncover signposts regarding his final sickness. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z

The Symphony launches March with Mozart, and violinist/conductor Thomas Zehetmair will be heard in the sublime Violin Concerto No. 3. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

In their first utterances, in which they praise the fidelity of their girlfriends, they tease out the conflicting emotions in the music rather than filling Mozart’s lines with the typical bluster. Music Review: City Opera?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-03-19T22:28:54Z

SYDNEY, Australia — In its new production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," Opera Australia shows how a classic work can be reset in the modern world without violating the spirit of the original. Modern 'Figaro,' timeless 'Turandot' in Sydney 2012-03-11T05:02:10Z

Shakespeare, Dickens and Mozart have all been brought enthusiastically back to life by Callow's dramatic storytelling. Simon Callow's critical re-appraisal 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

He had the best of starts, as a musical prodigy effusively compared with Mozart, and as energetically marketed by his father. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

The gala, titled “Mozart — the Early Years,” was a brief but illuminating look at where it all began. L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

He rebels by playing Mozart over the loudspeaker. The unlikely greatness of ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ 25 years later 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

But the inauguration of the Göttingen Handel Festival in Germany, in 1920, propelled a momentum that has resuscitated a flood of pieces from the decades before Gluck and Mozart. Is This the Best Opera Singer You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Stars, the Viennese and beauty never too intense to trouble your sleep: Along with Mozart and Strauss, those were long the defining qualities of Salzburg. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Berryman said about Mozart that “His whole life was at the mercy of his art,” and I think that this is true about Berryman, too. My John Berryman: A Poet of Deep Unease 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

“Meanwhile, audiences vote with their ears, choosing Mozart and Beethoven along with more modern music that academics stigmatize as pop.” Readers Comment on the Imagine This Series 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

This program took place the night before she was to be the soloist at Avery Fisher Hall in a work by Frank Martin for the final Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra program this summer. Patricia Kopatchinskaja in A Little Night Music 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Give the Mostly Mozart festival credit for trying something different for the opening of its 2017 season on Tuesday at David Geffen Hall. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra offers a free preview concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with music by Gluck and Mozart, as well as Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

“If he knew that his ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’ was being performed in the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg, with his love of Mozart,” Mr. Kosky added, “I think he’d be smiling in his grave.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mozart in the Jungle scored an early Golden Globe win that could have presaged wider favor, but America had trouble latching on to a musical-drama set in the fast-paced world of professional symphonic performance. Full stream ahead: how Amazon's TV shows need to up their game 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Sherpas Lead Way to a Feverish Finish Even Mozart, the composer of some of the most profound, sublime music ever written, churned out a few works that are merely genial. Music Review: Perter Serkin and the Shanghai Quartet at the 92nd Street Y 2012-11-13T23:52:09Z

On “Franklin and Bash” I played the man who knows everything, and now I’m a conductor on “Mozart in the Jungle.” Malcolm McDowell on the appeal of villainy: ” We’re all looking at Trump now. He’s fun. No wonder they write about him all the time.” 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Some young art stars, like Alexandra Nechita, who at 12 was labeled “a Mozart with a paintbrush” on talk shows and earned millions in sales, continue to make work. Six-Figure Artworks, by a Fifth Grader 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z

As with Mozart's opera, Isango's "Carmen" begins with the cast milling about in costume on a bare, raked stage, flanked by a rows of marimbas. Isango Ensemble's 'uCarmen' exerts overwhelming feminine power and vibrant musicality 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

He started with Ellington’s “Sucrier Velours,” from “The Queen’s Suite,” moved through George Shearing’s “Conception,” and then the band played its version of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A, organized into a jazz waltz. 2010-01-21T05:41:00Z

Dupré waxed “of a phenomenon equal to the youth of Bach or Mozart.” She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Truth be told, though, until “Mozart Dances,” Mr. Morris hadn’t used much Mozart either, showing more of an inclination toward 20th-century and Baroque composers. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Though the popular Mostly Mozart festival has won deserved praise for introducing innovations into its overall programming, concerts by its resident orchestra have mostly hewed to staples by Mozart and company. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

But aside from a co-directed, not-truly-his staging of “The Magic Flute” that appeared at the Mostly Mozart Festival in 2019, his work hasn’t found the audience it deserves in New York. After 10 Years, Barrie Kosky Leaves His Opera House Dancing 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival has not been held since 2019, but the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will have six pairs of concerts, including Mozart’s Requiem. Lincoln Center emerges from pandemic with summer festival 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

While this price matches Christie’s high estimate, it is a joke in today’s market for such an original picture by the Mozart of Irish painting. Auction: Buyers Lose Their Taste for 18th-Century Art and Furniture 2011-07-22T12:00:06Z

The headline on the concert tickets and on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s website read “Mirga Conducts Mozart and Haydn.” The real headliner of the concert: alphorns, blowing a whirlwind of dark emotion through Disney Hall 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

In "Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon's new comedy series set in the classical music world, "Hear the Hair" is a cringe-worthy promotional campaign behind Rodrigo, the new music director of a fictional New York orchestra. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Usually, Mozart’s music is too subtle and multilayered for any choreographic setting; here is one of the rare exceptions. Richard Alston Dance Company at Monclair State University 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

After collaborating with Mozart, he moved to London, then made his way to the United States, in 1805. “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Met 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

He soon got his answer when she sang a Mozart aria, a cappella, to him alone. A Classical Duo ‘Nerding Out’ on the Cosmos 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

Four years and countless memorable events later, Ms. Chase and her colleagues are serving as artists in residence this year at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z

The catchy dance track, which features vocals by Ssegawa Ssekintu, has the band playing a section of Mozart's String Quartet No 21. The classic pop of Clean Bandit 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

That fascination informs this opening installment of his Mozart series as well. CD Review: Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vol. 1 2010-06-04T15:13:00Z

Mozart composed what there is of “Zaide” in 1779-80, hoping to win favor with Emperor Joseph II, who was planning a new German opera company for Vienna. Music Review: In Unfinished Mozart Opera, Berio Provides the Last Word 2011-04-01T22:32:50Z

While orchestra seasons tend to focus on conservative repertory — Mozart and Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky — recordings have been more reflective of current tastes and trends. Perspective | Orchestras don’t get record deals any more. The Grammys show a silver lining. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Phil concludes “Mozart & Pärt” with Dudamel conducting the premiere of a new version for strings of an earlier Pärt choral work surrounded by two Mozart symphonies. A symphony for Los Angeles, just one otherworldly delight at L.A. Phil's Mozart and Pärt festival 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

You don’t encounter any music written before the 20th century — two Mozart quartets — until Disc 13. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

His program on Friday at 11 a.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. features symphonic poems — Stravinsky’s “The Song of the Nightingale” and Zemlinsky’s “The Mermaid” — and Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, with Judith LeClair. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:31:11Z

In an era when Broadway producers are cutting musicians, this show makes the bold move of placing more than 30 onstage, who project powerful versions of Mozart and Vivaldi in between monologues. Theater Review: ?The Infernal Comedy,? Starring John Malkovich - Review 2011-11-19T00:23:05Z

This “Magic Flute” has nothing to do with the more famous opera by Mozart, although the story does contain the wondrous instrument of the title. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z

This recital, available only as part of the Peoples’ Symphony’s bargain subscriptions, features Mozart, Debussy, Schubert and the pianist’s own “Variations on a Theme by Paganini.” Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

When Mozart played his own concertos, he typically conducted as well. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

But what galls her most are colleagues who suggest “Mozart in the Jungle” doesn’t reflect their everyday lives. Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Handel’s instrumental and large-scale choral works were well known to Mozart and Beethoven, who admired Handel tremendously. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z

But a mild breeze was blowing at Lincoln Center by the time the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra took the stage in Damrosch Park on Tuesday evening. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its first New York concerts led by its new music director, Andris Nelsons, three performances that will include the music of Gunther Schuller, Mozart, Strauss, Beethoven, Shostakovich and Mahler. Carnegie Hall Plans South Africa Festival in 2014-15 2014-01-29T16:31:50Z

The second, on Wednesday evening, was a complete overhaul of the fascinating program of Mozart and Schoenberg that Mr. Levine had been scheduled to conduct, with Maurizio Pollini as piano soloist. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z

Mr. Langrée is widely credited with raising the orchestra’s performance level and pushing the festival’s programming in new directions, often well beyond Mozart and into the 21st century. Langrée Signs On for More Mostly Mozart 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

In the TV comedy category, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honored the under-the-radar Amazon comedy “Mozart in the Jungle,” which just started its second season; best drama went to the rookie “Mr. Robot.” Ricky Gervais Hosts the Golden Globes With Beer and Vinegar 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

So perhaps one shouldn’t fault “Mozart in the Jungle” for falling back on cliches; plenty of people within the field are doing exactly the same thing. ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ and entertainment’s classical-music problem 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

In 1950, he worked in lyric theater as a director, set designer and costumist, bringing new life to works by his favorites: Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

It will culminate with the world premiere of an as-yet untitled orchestral work by Part, sharing the bill with Mozart's symphonies No. 25 and 40. L.A. Phil lays out its 2015-16 season at Disney Hall 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

There were appealing moments in the Mozart, but over all, that interpretation also lacked a distinctive spark. Music Review: New York Philharmonic and Emanuel Ax Play Schoenberg 2012-10-05T23:16:56Z

The aim was to produce a Deutsche Grammophon disc of a vocal work and two Mozart concertos, No. 19 in F and No. 23 in A. Mozart wrote cadenzas for both. H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z

“Mozart was Bryn’s present, and Wagner was his future,” Mr. Epstein said recently in New York. A Hungry Singer, Consuming His Roles 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — The venerable Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, founded in 1948 to enhance the natural beauties of southern France, is renowned especially for the quality and variety of its opera program, with Mozart as a staple. Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Includes ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Revival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

The five new original series will join Amazon's expanding original programming, which includes "Mozart in the Jungle," the Golden-Globe winning "Transparent," police procedural "Bosch" and the beltway comedy "Alpha House." Amazon orders five pilots to series, renews 'Mozart in the jungle' 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

They ranged from his beautiful, adored Jill – top of any list of loves – to Plymouth Argyle, and from Hazlitt and Mozart to Humphrey Bogart. The Michael Foot I knew, by Neil Kinnock 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

On Saturday, there’s more Mozart, as well as Haydn’s “Nelson” Mass and Bernstein’s “Halil,” in which the soloist will be the ensemble’s principal flutist, Elizabeth Rowe, who is currently suing the orchestra for pay discrimination. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Two Houses, Two Piano Masterworks The Mostly Mozart festival provides shifts of perspective and scale swifter than anything else on New York’s musical calendar. Paul Lewis Plays Mozart and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-08T23:12:58Z

“It was like suddenly you woke up and there’s your idiot child playing Mozart.” Review | ‘The Contender’ remembers Marlon Brando as an actor and so much more 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Once it did begin recording, on Teldec then EMI, the Berg covered large swaths of the quartet canon: two complete Beethoven sets, as well as works by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. My Favorite String Quartet 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Louis Langrée, best known in New York as the music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, will take the performances of Oct. James Levine Withdraws From Met?s Fall Season 2011-09-07T04:32:44Z

Most prominent 17th- and 18th-century composers — like Monteverdi, Handel and Vivaldi, Gluck, Haydn and Mozart — assembled or contributed, knowingly or not, to pastiches. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z

Since the English words need not conform exactly to Mozart’s melodic lines, Mr. McClatchy is free to write translations that adhere more closely to the original imagery, meaning and rhyme scheme. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

But instead of spiking Mostly Mozart, Moss took a firmer hand with the programming, hired Langrée as a partner, and broadened the offerings — eventually to something closer to Slightly Mozart. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The Symphony is also in action on Friday, at 8 p.m., with Charles Dutoit leading Mozart selections and Rossini’s “Stabat Mater.” Classical Music Listings for Aug. 19-25 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Ambition isn’t new to Mostly Mozart; in 2015, for example, it presented the American stage premiere of George Benjamin’s opera “Written on Skin.” Review: A Dazzling ‘Creation’ Brings Light to Lincoln Center 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Barenboim conducted from the piano in Mozart’s Concerto No. 27 in B flat, playing with utmost fluidity and grace, and drawing much the same from the orchestra. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Reaching the end of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival this week, the house band sounded exceptionally fine and cohesive. Joshua Bell Plays Mostly Mozart 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

"I find that Mozart and Stravinsky complement each other very well," Robertson says. At SSO: Adams' 'Doctor Atomic Symphony' 2011-12-29T21:18:04Z

All the marks of exalted Mozart playing were here, especially a graceful ebb and flow. Review: Takacs Quartet and the Viennese Masters Play at Alice Tully Hall 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Benjamin closed the programme with an elegantly sculpted performance of Mozart's 40th Symphony – subdued in parts, but beautiful for its chiselled economy. SCO/Benjamin – review 2013-04-29T17:48:32Z

On Friday at the Austrian Embassy, the Minetti Quartet offered enjoyable if unremarkable renditions of works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. The Minetti Quartet is enjoyable but not striking at Austrian Embassy 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

The classical music world is not foreign to dynasties, from the Mozarts to modern conducting clans such as the Järvis and Jurowskis. When One Instrument Speaks in Three Voices 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Operas range from Rossini and Mozart to Puccini and Verdi, and the ballet repertory encompasses major Russian and French works, among others. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z

"And he said, 'Enough with the Mozart!' And he started delivering music with the milk." Composer Max Richter's project designed to lull listeners to 'Sleep' 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

His specialties He’s known for intense performances of the standard repertory — classics like Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler and Shostakovich — more than contemporary music. What You Need to Know About the New York Philharmonic’s Next Music Director 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

The closest camera is at Mozart Drive and Courtland Avenue, and police were hopeful it captured the image of someone leaving the scene. Teen severely beaten after homework date 2011-09-14T10:32:00Z

He is scheduled to appear with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center in early August, leading a program that features the violinist Joshua Bell. Baltimore Symphony’s New Conductor Breaks a Racial Barrier 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Anthony Tommasini Once the Mostly Mozart Festival ends, the offerings of classical music in New York thin out for a while, until the new season begins. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

A terra-cotta facade is relatively new, topped by statues of Mozart, Verdi and, at the pinnacle, Wagner. Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The ancestral door at the backdrop opened on a world of Mozart prettiness, where the Dior dresses, as short as their ruffles were sweet, were smothered in pale rose prints. Special Report: Liberty vs. Libertine 2010-03-05T19:16:00Z

The Philharmonic arrives in June with a program including Stockhausen’s “Gruppen,” a giant work for three orchestras playing with an audience in the middle, and the finale of Act I from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” The Park Avenue Armory, Indisputably Big 2011-12-21T21:04:21Z

We think of her, however, primarily in terms of Mozart, Strauss and the excesses of Baroque opera, so the choice of Bach seems perverse. Bach: Cantatas and Arias ? review 2011-03-10T21:30:00Z

The piece, with repeat performances Friday and next Sunday, takes the words of the two jurists and sets them to music inspired by, among others, Mozart, Verdi and Strauss. From ‘rage aria’ to ‘lovely duet,’ opera does justice to court, Ginsburg says 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

If you don't like Mozart or Shakespeare or Sondheim, that's fine, but the problem is you, not Mozart, Shakespeare, or Sondheim. ‘Into the Woods,’ Disney’s Take on the Sondheim-Lapine Classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bretz sees Bluebeard as a lonely man, “longing for love without questions,” he said, but not finding it: a distant Hungarian relative of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z

The orchestra rallied, a lot, for the Mozart clarinet concerto, which Sinaisky, a big, powerful figure on stage, conducted with a soft, firm touch, a sense of power deliberately restrained. Debuting conductor offers experienced path through ‘The Bells’ 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

They highlight Beethoven’s virtuosity as a keyboard player — the early models showing the influence of Mozart, the later sonatas breaking new ground. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z

“It’s not like Baroque, it’s not Mozart,” he said. Massaging 1,000 Voices Into Lincoln Center’s Choral Miracle 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Under the aegis of comic opera, Verdi and Wagner seem to have wandered together into a moonlit garden – the same garden where, disguised as the Countess, Mozart's Susanna once sang so alluringly. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

If these concerts felt like the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra’s audition to join Thake’s new Lincoln Center, then the ensemble did everything it could to secure its part. At Mostly Mozart Concerts, Casual Vibes and High Musical Values 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

Its schedule offers some lovely music: Barber’s Violin Concerto, Stravinsky’s “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto, some Gluck, Beethoven, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, even a reasonable helping of Mozart. Music Review: Ax and Blythe Open Mostly Mozart at Lincoln Center 2010-07-28T21:34:00Z

Mozart must be a draw to those who look for seemingly soothing after-dinner music. Some seriously gutsy Mozart stands out at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

It’s why I was happy to snack on chocolate Mozart treats while in Austria, but found the Wagner sweets for sale here less enticing. Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia From a German Opera House 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Langrée didn’t want to say more about the end of his Mostly Mozart tenure — by any measure a triumph of ensemble-building and musical curiosity. Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

And the vulgarity was a way of separating Mozart's genius from his humanity: to show that we can't explain genius, however hard we might try. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z

Over the years our musical lives have intersected many times, at the New York Philharmonic, Mostly Mozart Festival and most recently at the Seattle Symphony. Musicians' notes on Gerard Schwarz 2011-06-08T19:32:04Z

The Lithuanian conductor will appear at Walt Disney Concert Hall on March 1 to lead a Los Angeles Philharmonic program of music by Mozart, Stravinsky and Beethoven. L.A. Phil's Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducts herself with aplomb 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

She plays the work differently in this context, she said, from the way she would if the program were entirely Mozart or entirely Classical. Recording As a Road To Recovery 2011-01-27T22:59:45Z

The program began with a lean, lithe and elegantly shaped account of the Mozart symphony. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z

Though Mr. Rolfe Johnson was most closely identified with early-music composers, including Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, his portfolio ranged through Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and on to modernity. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Operatic Tenor, Dies at 69 2010-07-27T05:28:00Z

Meanwhile, Amazon has Transparent, which is totally deserving of all of its hype, and the underrated orchestra comedy Mozart in the Jungle. A Handy Guide to Picking Your Summer TV Binge 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Of course this puts the festival orchestra under pressure to deliver top-notch Mozart performances, which it mostly did on Tuesday night. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

It’s an early work: In 1781, Mozart, just turned 25, conducted its Munich premiere. Who Needs Sets or Fancy Costumes for These Mozart Operas? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Your new album starts with a famous Mozart aria written for a woman who is playing a man. ‘I Would Love to Sing Lucia’: A Male Soprano Comes Into His Own 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Nor, crucially, is this year's Mozart symphony famine a one-off omission. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

He didn’t mean just movie composers — “that ghetto — but “I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert.” Tarantino’s “ghetto” gaffe: His Golden Globes Morricone speech does not impress 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Also featured are Grieg’s “From Holberg’s Time,” Mozart’s rarely heard Symphony No. 34, and the world premiere of an ensemble version of Anna Clyne’s “Rest These Hands,” originally written for recorded violin. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The project, formally known as the Mozart Libretti online edition, is available free, and is part of the Mozarteum’s larger Digital Mozart Edition, a collaboration with the Packard Humanities Institute in Los Altos, Calif. ArtsBeat: Scholarly Editions of Mozart Librettos Going Online 2014-02-06T17:16:06Z

Holten's take on the ending is creepy, though not as startling or morally complex as Mozart's original. Mozart: Don Giovanni Juan DVD – review 2012-12-12T16:55:06Z

A Doyle’s sale on April 23 will contain arrangements in Toscanini’s bold calligraphy for works by Shostakovich, Berlioz and Mozart, among other composers. Antiques: Paper Mills, Toscanini and Panoramic Art and Photographs 2013-01-24T22:46:54Z

Mozart’s comic opera — which features the cast of characters from his opera “The Barber of Seville” — follows Figaro, a valet whose master has designs on Figaro’s fiancée. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

As the actor Albert Brooks put it on Twitter after it won its second Golden Globe, “If Mozart in The Jungle wins any more awards someone will have to see it.” Musicians on How ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ Conducts Itself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

I learned that he’d been born in 1913, and that when he was fourteen he was invited to play a Mozart concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

For instance, Mozart’s passion for opera comes through in all of his music. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

We want to identify with the person behind the music, and with Beethoven and Mozart this is less complicated. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

Father and son were struck, but Deshun's dad was able to get away by turning south on Mozart, while the SUV fled east on 66th Street, police said. Boy, 15, wounded along with father dies 2012-02-07T14:15:00Z

Since the pandemic, the future of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, established in 1973, has been uncertain. Lincoln Center Names Conductor for Reimagined Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Or did Mozart, too, calculate his dedication as a business decision? Chamber Music Society Festival Centers on Dedications 2011-10-30T03:15:06Z

His early signal successes as an orchestral conductor included a Mozart symphony series with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

With Peakes as the repulsive yet captivating court composer who, with Iago’s guile, coaxes his brilliant better, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, into an early grave, we’re in the very best hands. Review | ‘Amadeus’ at the Folger will be music to your ears 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Scottish Ballet has commissioned a brand new ballet from Elo, set to music by Mozart and Steve Reich. Edinburgh festival 2011: Soak it up! 2011-07-17T20:29:01Z

There's no popular caricature of the man, as there is of Bach, Mozart or Beethoven. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-28T21:00:00Z

Or Mozart’s “Turkish” Violin Concerto with the eminent Pinchas Zukerman, whose playing had a worn elegance, frayed in intonation but all the more dignified for it? Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mozart's four horn concertos may be his best set of concertos of all, but you rarely hear them in concert, possibly because these pieces are not exactly walks in the park for the soloist. Andrew Manze leads L.A. Philharmonic in a horn showcase 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

But as in Andres' fanciful play on Mozart, the further he strays from tradition the more remarkable a composer he becomes. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra explores Mozart by way of Sacred Harp, Haydn by way of flamenco 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Chamber Music at the Barns continues on Jan. 11 with trios by Beethoven, Dohnanyi and Mozart. Review | Vienna in Vienna: Chamber music at Wolf Trap 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

In engaging introductory comments he told the audience that in the hourlong program he wanted to highlight the disturbing things beneath the surface of those late Mozart pieces. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

Mozart's opera may be ignored because it was an opera seria, the already archaic formal style of tragic opera. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The earlier “Jeunehomme,” written by Mozart when he was 21 and a court musician in Salzburg, Austria, is a beautiful work that brought his youthful focus on piano concertos to culmination. Pianist Frank Braley returns to Benaroya with Mozart 2014-05-08T22:08:39Z

“But bluegrass is an instrumentation, and if you do the instrumentation, you can play anything. I got Mozart, I got rags — ‘Maple Leaf Rag,’ Scott Joplin.” Roger Sprung, Banjo Virtuoso of N.Y.C. Folk Scene, Dies at 92 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Curtin gave her New York recital debut at Town Hall in 1950 in a characteristically eclectic program that featured songs by Mozart, Fauré, Ravel, Mussorgsky and several Latin American composers. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

“I don’t like the character,” she said, “plus I don’t see myself as a Mozart singer.” Russian Diva to Open Third Met Season in a Row 2013-09-16T14:39:33Z

It is devoting the first 12 days of January exclusively to Mozart, playing everything he ever wrote. Pass notes No 2,892: Mozart 2010-12-05T21:00:00Z

As Mr. Adès has put it, it’s a “proper piano concerto,” along the lines of Mozart or Bartok. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Even in his lifetime, he was pegged a traditionalist because his forms — the sonata, the symphony — are those familiar from Mozart and Haydn. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Groups like the American Classical Orchestra in New York began playing Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and their contemporaries in period style in the 1980s and ’90s. Music Review: Grand Harmonie at the Church of the Epiphany 2013-05-26T21:47:26Z

The aren't-we-being-inventive thing, I can find that off-putting: "Too many notes, Mozart." Hugh Laurie loosens up in continued visit to house of American music 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Ottoman military bands played authentic Turkish percussion to terrify the residents — the same percussion that Mozart later imitated for its entertainment value in “Abduction.” Muslims, Christians and Mozart: Seeking Harmony at the Met Opera 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

The list of notable freemasons includes some surprising names, from Wellington and Walter Scott to Simon Bolivar and Mozart. "Into the Light" 2013-06-05T06:35:14Z

The real theatrical overtones came at the end, with Mozart’s “Prague” Symphony, which breathes the same air as “Don Giovanni” and sometimes verges on the same musical gestures. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z

“I’ve started to look back at my career from a point in the future,” he said in an interview in New York following his Mostly Mozart appearance. The Swedish Clarinetist Martin Frost Wants to Move Beyond Traditional Concert Formats 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

This was as important to Mozart as was his quill and ink.” Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

This is a decently cast show, hard to fault and full of humour yet with much exploration of Mozart's infinitely complex score, as well as Da Ponte's scintillating text, still to be done. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z

The usual assumption is that Mozart's predatory lothario is the chief villain. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z

In the Mozart trio, Mr. Tetzlaff’s touch was precise, but his lyricism sometimes felt manufactured; in the Bartok he never seemed anything but utterly in his element. Music Review: Christian and Tanja Teztlaff in ‘Contrasts’ at the 92nd St. Y 2013-04-17T20:57:26Z

Radio 3 is playing wall-to-wall Mozart for the first 12 days in January. Pass notes No 2,892: Mozart 2010-12-05T21:00:00Z

You recently shot a cameo role for Amazon's comedy series "Mozart in the Jungle." Plácido Domingo on playing Macbeth in L.A. Opera's season opener 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

He's conducting a four-concert "Russian Spectacular" package, featuring works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, plus a concert in the spring with Garrick Ohlsson as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9. Seattle Symphony unveils 2012-13 season 2012-01-27T21:01:04Z

The concept allowed the creative team to do away with whole chunks of spoken dialogue in Mozart’s work, which, truth to tell, there’s too much of. Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

Molly Smith, who directs this one-act, 100-minute show with a welcome briskness, seasons the proceedings with selections from Mozart, Donizetti and Verdi works, a nod to the justice’s well-known love of opera. Review: ‘The Originalist,’ About Scalia, Opens in Washington 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Mozart was living beyond his means, and this was a handsome commission. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mozart’s symphony may have been a little overshadowed on opening night. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The specific Mozart was the Rondo for Piano, K. 382, an alternate concerto ending that has found life in the concert hall as a stand-alone piece. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z

In this ironic tale, suggested by a play by Alexander Pushkin, it’s the careerist Salieri, court composer and Viennese music scene eminence, who is the sun around which even Mozart must orbit. But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Jet-lagged but unfailingly charming, incoming Seattle Symphony maestro Ludovic Morlot conducted Thursday's daylong series of media interviews — television, radio, print, Internet — with all the grace of a Mozart symphony. Morlot, incoming Seattle Symphony maestro, is 'ready to build something' 2010-07-09T01:10:00Z

There was nothing to stop Mr. Brook from tampering with Mozart’s score. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

No doubt for some, the sight of Mozart’s violin tricked out in 21st-century gadgetry is sacrilegious. Critic’s Notebook: Musical Relics From Paganini and Mozart, Still Sending Blessings 2013-06-19T21:45:34Z

The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts. God gave rock'n'roll to you ? but not for this! 2011-04-08T23:05:00Z

Mozart’s high-pitched laugh, too, acts as a rebuke to a competitor who, finally, can no longer take his rival’s degree of talent. Review: Salieri’s Anguish Continues in a New ‘Amadeus’ in London 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

For the main Mozart offering, Louis Langrée, the festival’s music director, conducted the “Haffner” Symphony — though, as was common in Mozart’s day, the movements were performed separately. Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

In his final concert as music director in May, he will do what he is perhaps best at: perform a Mozart piano concerto, leading the orchestra from his seat at the keyboard. Jeffrey Kahane to end 20-year run as LACO conductor with his most ambitious project: a festival devoted to tolerance 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Do you want to do mathematics in the desert or in the city where Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven overlapped, and Brahms used to come to our house? We’re Austrians. Viennese.” Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Higdon claimed, in a program note, to be writing in tribute to composers like Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Review: At NY Phil Biennial, Interlochen Rises to the Occasion 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

Yes, there may be some encores, and the rest of the program includes a Sibelius curtain-raiser and Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, with new music director Thomas Dausgaard on the podium. 9 Seattle-area classical music performances to go to this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

The second reissue was the rare Mozart box set. What does a £2,500 record sound like? 2013-05-25T16:00:00Z

She grew up listening to traditional Zimbabwean styles, as well as James Brown, Michael Jackson, Roberta Flack, the Rolling Stones, Bach and Mozart – an eclectic mix that would influence her later songwriting. Chiwoniso obituary 2013-07-26T18:08:38Z

Though Mostly Mozart has found a devoted audience over the decades, its future is now under discussion. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Opera's first performances of Mozart's "The Abduction From the Seraglio" in 21 years. L.A. Opera to present 'Macbeth,' 'Akhnaten' and Leonard Bernstein tribute in 2016-17 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

There, the exciting young players of the Danish String Quartet made their Mostly Mozart debut as part of A Little Night Music, the popular series of hourlong programs at 10 p.m. Review: Stately Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a Brave Danish String Quartet 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

A similar element of poetry informed his exquisitely sculpted readings of Mozart’s Sonata No. 17 and Schubert’s “Wanderer Fantasie.” Review | Subtle, understated, or simply muted? Pianist offers restrained beauty in WPA debut. 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

Bendix-Balgley returned after his affectionate performance of the Mozart for an encore of two keening, quicksilver klezmer tunes: a quiet benediction over a dark history. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

There was no Mozart symphony performed in the whole of the 2011 season either. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

The three-movement ballet, set to Mozart, was revived in 1983 by Ballet Theater under the ambitious artistic direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Salzburg also holds a number of other musical festivals throughout the year, including the Mozart Festival in January and the weeklong Salzburg Easter Festival. Why Salzburg Is a Must-Visit for Classical Music 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

There are evocations galore and many direct quotes from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and more. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

But if you want the sheer unstoppable flow of Mozart, or Schubert, then you only have Lennon and McCartney. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Mr. Jacobs, one of the most significant early-music conductors, described “Idomeneo” as “the masterpiece of all the Mozart operas.” Who Needs Sets or Fancy Costumes for These Mozart Operas? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Named Robot K-456 — the reference is to a Mozart piano concerto — and now on loan from a German collection, it’s the first thing we see in the show, and it’s quite a sight. Nam June Paik’s Work at Asia Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

But even without knowing this, most listeners, I think, will intuitively sense when the soloist in Mozart’s slow movements becomes the pianist equivalent of a prima donna. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Monday's performance was of a new production of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Metropolitan Opera opening night greeted with 'Klinghoffer' protests 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

For instance: How did Mozart and Schubert create so much at such an insanely high level in so little time? Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

He is now back in New York starring in a revival of Michael Grandage’s production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and he seemed in fine shape, vocally and physically. Review: A Singer’s Strong Return in a Drab ‘Don Giovanni’ 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

I am not taking the post in Chicago just to prove I can do Mozart, Beethoven, etc. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

The first books she read in that language, she added, were Mozart’s letters. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

"When we talk about Mozart we are talking about what?" Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

It’s the same with Mozart and Beethoven — they express two very different aspects of music. Ludovico Einaudi: A Classical Artist for the YouTube Age 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mutter, looking typically glamorous in one of her trademark strapless gowns, was soloist and leader in three violin concertos Mozart wrote as a teenager. Music Review: Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras 2010-11-19T22:50:00Z

Seated sternly before the Philharmonia Orchestra in London in the 1960s, he appeared to many to be the solemn custodian of Bach and Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z

Last Monday, the British conductor Jane Glover made her Metropolitan Opera debut, in the hardly enviable assignment of the holiday abridgment — over an hour of the score is cut — of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

For a concert in 2004 Mozart’s Requiem was paired with Persian and Indian improvisations. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

Bush chose a solo piece to illustrate solo play, Mozart’s “Sonata Facile” for piano. A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

He says, in true mastermind fashion, that everything that motivated Michelangelo, Mozart, Shakespeare and the Empire State Building was thirst for sex. That Twist and 4 Other Things We Learned About Westworld 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Dylan, for his part, seems to favor Mozart and Beethoven over Wagner, whom he colorfully described, in a 1993 interview, as “one of the archcriminals of all time.” Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

It was his encounter with Anton Stadler — an instrument maker and virtuoso on both the clarinet and the deeper, more veiled-sounding basset horn — that inspired Mozart to write groundbreaking clarinet parts. Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Among them is one more performance of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” conducted by David Stern and directed by Mary Birnbaum on Saturday. Classical Music Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

It’s the wasteful, confusing overlap with Mostly Mozart, a duplication of efforts that seems more obvious each year. Toward a More Perfect Lincoln Center Union 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Works and Process will also provide a glimpse into the music of the Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle,” which has featured cameos by real-world classical music stars like Plácido Domingo and Nico Muhly. Jerry Springer and Mozart: Guggenheim Unveils Works and Process Season 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

James Levine, making his first appearance on an opening night in four years, led an appealing cast and the great Met orchestra in an eloquent, richly detailed performance of this multilayered Mozart masterpiece. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

So he reached back to his Broadway experience as Mozart in “Amadeus” — the composer was said to have stunned the imperial court in Vienna with his donkey’s bray of a laugh. Getting the Joker’s Laugh Just Right 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Earlier Ms. Luecker proved a straightforward and sensitive pianist who brought lyrical grace and clarity to Mozart’s Sonata in C minor. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z

Buchbinder raves about Brahms, Mozart, Schubert and Gershwin, but Beethoven still rules 30 years later. Austrian piano virtuoso enjoys life on-off stage 2012-07-12T12:00:16Z

Library of Congress into buying a fake Mozart manuscript in 1928. Galileo Forgery’s Trail Leads to Web of Mistresses and Manuscripts 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

This German ensemble offers works by Mozart for its next visit to New York, including the Clarinet Concerto in A and the “Linz” Symphony. Classical Music Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Change is coming for the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and for its longtime music director, Louis Langrée — this month is the beginning of the end of his tenure with the orchestra. Review: At Mostly Mozart, the Sense of an Ending 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

One newspaper described it as Mozart with gravy and potatoes, and Kamp Hansen said it helped break down some prejudices about classical music. European arts cuts: no more Mozart with gravy and potatoes as Danish orchestra is silenced 2012-08-01T14:27:29Z

But music director Emily Leather realises Mozart's orchestra eloquently on the piano, aided by some eerie live electronic interventions from composer Harry Blake, who riffs cleverly on the original. Don Giovanni ? review 2011-08-24T17:41:34Z

A: A new box set jam-packed with 200 CDs that contains every note composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his short 35 years of life. ‘Mozart 225’ contains all — yes, all — of his music in 200-CD set 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

It encourages descriptions of surreal coping, such as one in which Margot fingers the dashboard: “That was Mozart, she said. Did you like it?” A Florida Trailer Park Awash in Lethal Weapons 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

But the fast tempo emphasized the farcical aspect of a scene that Mozart also injects with a touch of melancholy. Review: James Levine Opens Last Run as Metropolitan Opera Music Director 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Smith seems to draw a lesson from Kiki’s inability to concentrate on Mozart: while music can draw you into a trance, the novel is busy doing the job of looking around. Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

This concerto could fill the slot on orchestra programs that typically goes to Mozart or Beethoven. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Consequently, there have been but a handful of notable string trios other than Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, his largest chamber work and the model for Harbison's trio. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Leopold Mozart would have admired the marketing skills of the persistent young men in ratty wigs and fraying red waistcoats who prowl Stephansplatz, Vienna’s central square. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

From his long experience with period instrument ensembles Mr. Langrée has a penchant for fleet tempos and clear textures in Mozart. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

"The Sound of Music is better known than Mozart worldwide," he asserts. Sound of Music comes to Salzburg 2011-11-22T12:01:05Z

Seattle Opera’s revival of its very successful 2006 “Cosi fan tutte,” which updated the setting of the Mozart opera to the 21st century, demolishes a lot of stage clichés with a brash modernist zest. Seattle Opera puts a zesty 21st century spin on ‘Cosi fan tutte’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Founded in 1920, with its roots in 19th-century celebrations of Mozart, this picturesque city’s native son, Salzburg is a big, old ocean liner that turns slowly, if at all. 10 Days at the Salzburg Festival, Music’s Disneyland 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Together they attended plays, hosted concerts and invited a young Mozart to perform for them in 1764. Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

Van Zweden, as in his breakneck second movement in Beethoven’s Ninth, pressed the third-movement Allegro of the Mozart a few shades past comfort. The Philharmonic Tests Its New Home With the Classics 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Garcia Bernal, known for “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Mozart in the Jungle”, said the movie also touches on “the crisis of masculinity”. Woman on fire: Larrain's 'Ema' tells tale of liberation 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

In the absence of a major house taking up “Skin,” the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, at its bravest, gave that work its staged premiere in 2015, but that festival is no more. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

In Mozart, the ends of phraselets are often decorated with little dissonances, elegant deflections; in Haydn, the same role is often played by witty cross-accents, or unusual figurations. ‘Beethoven,’ by Jan Swafford 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

During the Mozart symphony, in an intense episode of the third movement, the musicians are seated in chairs facing every which way. A Swiss Orchestra Dances Beyond the Boundaries of Classical Music 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Robinson may lack the lowest notes of Mozart’s punishing part, but he has a way to make you think that even they have the plummy richness of the rest of his range. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Mozart tossed it off that summer for an organist friend to play at the Feast of Corpus Christi. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

He considers his adversary, the terrorist mastermind, “the Mozart of bombs.” “The Little Drummer Girl,” Reviewed: A Fever Dream of Glamourous Espionage 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

More Mozart is on tap for the rest of the festival, too, particularly the July 21 finale. Joshua Bell tops list of notables at Bellingham Festival of Music 2012-06-28T20:46:04Z

There will be unadulterated Mozart as well at the festival: a pair of concerts will feature Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, played by Richard Goode, along with the “Jupiter” Symphony. ArtsBeat: Mark Morris Bringing a Handel Work to Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-04-09T14:00:52Z

"Classical music means Mozart and Beethoven and when you say Irish classical music their eyes just widen," Deane, who recently turned 60, told Reuters over lunch at a French-style bistro in Dublin. Irish composer Raymond Deane talks Achill, Alma and ABBA too 2013-02-14T14:01:41Z

Like Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, also in D minor, the Brahms begins with a long orchestral introduction before the soloist’s softly singing entrance — passion turning into a plea. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

It is the drivel of disembodied voices narrating bad documentaries about Beethoven and Mozart. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

It continues here with Mozart… Mozart knew all about motivic development too. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z

One thing it is not, at least in this opening week, is mostly devoted to Mozart. The Week Ahead: July 25 ? 31 2010-07-23T21:42:00Z

A dying figure, Agni, is surrounded by the countenances of mythic beings, including Mozart, Lewis Carroll, a witch, the Queen of the Night, Copernicus, Tristan and Isolde. Worlds meet and worlds beyond at Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The year may have a special allure for Gustavo Dudamel, whose birthday, Jan. 26, is a day before Mozart’s, and who turned 36 this year. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

The director Michael Grandage, known for his boldness in the theater world, has no strong take on Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” his Met debut, which opened in October. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

Between scenes Mozart, Bach and Beethoven describe passion's grander dimensions – music the ultimate alter ego. Passion Play – review 2013-05-11T23:05:16Z

Calling it a book seems odd, given what it offers, but there is a book within it, and a serious one, as Mozart books go. A Digital Mozart Book That Behaves Like an App 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the last great composers of the baroque era, while his sons were contributors to the rapidly developing classical style, brought to maturity by Haydn and Mozart. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra does the Bach family proud 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The concert was magnificent - Handel, Mozart, Rossini - and then I believe at the very end there was a very Fellinian situation. Soprano Bartoli: My voice has more colors, shadow 2012-12-27T14:42:49Z

“It felt like an experiment. But ‘The Threepenny Opera’ allows for that more than, say, a Mozart opera.” In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

He returns with Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, which he pairs on Wednesday at Carnegie Hall with Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish.” The Week Ahead: Dec. 4 ? Dec. 10 2011-12-02T19:02:33Z

Bizet's score does not adapt to South African musical elements as readily as Mozart's did. Isango Ensemble's 'uCarmen' exerts overwhelming feminine power and vibrant musicality 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

When Mattei agreed to debut the role at the Met, he was known mostly as a Mozart singer, and the only Wagner he had sung was the lyrical Wolfram in "Tannhaeuser." Mattei takes `step up' to role in `Parsifal' 2013-02-26T20:25:11Z

For the concert at Strathmore, presented by Washington Performing Arts, Fischer offered a traditional repertory program: an overture and concerto by Mozart and the incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by Felix Mendelssohn. Budapest Festival Orchestra at Strathmore 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Caliban’s music in that aria, for example, is cast in a blazing A major, but it is not the A major of Mahler or Mozart. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z

These are great works of art of their time, written by the 20th century's Schuberts and Mozarts. Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z

Yet it’s not only a fascination with the past, or the fantasy of achieving some sort of artistic completeness—the idea that every note Mozart wrote must be heard—that motivates Joseph. A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mozart also composed a few original fugues, like the somber K. 546, which received a soulful and suitably dark-hued rendition here. Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-06T00:35:05Z

In “The Raggedy Dances,” from 1972, she mashes up Scott Joplin and Mozart with her own unique blend of rigorous frolicking. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

In keeping with the music — Mozart selections — the choreography is more fluid than abrasive. Review: ‘Un Break à Mozart’ Sails Onstage, Along With the Dash Ensemble 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

In the “Gran Partita” Serenade, Mozart achieves an uncanny blend of breeziness and grandeur. Review: Mostly Mozart Returns to Lincoln Center, Quietly 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

But in concertos by composers as varied as Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev, whether for violinist or pianist, the soloists recede a bit too thoroughly into the orchestral textures. Geffen and Gustavo: Mixed Boons for the New York Philharmonic 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

In the 1700s, Mozart and his sister Maria Anna spent much of their childhood on tour, performing adorableness and brilliance for audiences across Europe. Child stars: The power and the price of cuteness 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

The narrator enjoys listening to Mozart, Beethoven and other greats of the Germanic classical repertoire. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

That led to a cult-hit series on Logo TV, “Jeffery & Cole Casserole,” and roles on shows including “Difficult People” and “Mozart in the Jungle,” as well as plenty of stage performances. YouTube star Cole Escola could be anywhere, but he wants to be stuck in a room with you 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The classic on offer is Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

“Standing where Mozart stood, I had shivers,” he said. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

Serving carnivores since 1447, including Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, and Mark Twain, too. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Within the next four seasons, she will sing eight different roles, including Pamina in a new staging of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” and a leading part in a Baroque pastiche the company is developing. ‘I Savor Everything’: A Soprano’s Star Turn at the Met Opera 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

There seems to be consensus that the experiment tried out for the last few Mostly Mozart Festivals, which involved extending the stage on a platform into the hall, has been very promising. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z

But in Stravinsky’s chamber works, played at Alice Tully Hall in the evening, you could discern echoes of Mozart’s Classical clarity and economy, as well as his ribald humor. Music Review: A Group Determinedly Finding a Spot Right in the Middle of Things 2011-08-09T22:04:45Z

That might sound initially unlikely, but the history of music is the history of revolutions too, and Mozart in the Jungle contains a whiff of that. Gael García Bernal: ‘Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. ​It’s hate discourse’ 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Thanks in part to the conducting of Andrews Sill, the greatest delights of these performances were the connections between Mozart and Balanchine. Dance Review: Kaleidoscopes of Patterns Against Backdrop of Mozart?s Chivalry 2011-02-16T22:28:42Z

In the Mozart, Schumann and Liszt, Mr. Lewis put a premium on textural clarity. Music Review: English Pianist Paul Lewis at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2010-04-25T22:04:00Z

The program began with Mozart's early First Flute Quartet and ended with Schubert's powerful, irrepressibly tuneful Second Piano Trio. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

These days you never know what to expect from Mostly Mozart. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z

He has performed his share of concertos with orchestras; a Naïve recording offers elegant accounts of two Mozart concertos, with Mr. Greilsammer conducting the Suedama Ensemble from the keyboard. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

I’ve shifted to the landscape of TV and great top-end shows like “The Righteous Gemstones” and “Enlightened” and “Mozart in the Jungle,” etc. Dermot Mulroney: “Floating in warm water in middle of the night is a strange way to make a livi... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice abandoned international affairs for a Mozart piano concerto on Tuesday, teaming up with Soul legend Aretha Franklin to perform at a charity concert. Former top U.S. diplomat Rice opts for Mozart concerto 2010-07-28T04:14:00Z

Take Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky’s reinterpreted Mozart canon, heard in the premiere of a version for mixed ensemble. New-Music Performances Open the MoMA Summergarden Series 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

For years, it offered overlapping festivals that competed for audiences and donors: Mostly Mozart, known mostly for traditional concerts; and the Lincoln Center Festival, with theater, dance and spectacle. Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

He and principal trumpet player Thomas Hooten will be featured soloists during three performances Friday through Sunday — "Brilliant Brass: Haydn & Mozart." L.A. Philharmonic's Andrew Bain takes spotlight in 'Brilliant Brass' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I felt we were sitting on something important, like an early Mozart opera,” Ms. Burton said. Cole Porter’s Lost Show Unearthed 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tao, who had gone into the studio to record three Mozart sonatas, also laid down the tracks that became “American Rage”; he doesn’t know what will come of that planned Mozart album. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

The obvious candidates for the second and third slots are Mozart and Beethoven. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

“When we hear Mozart,” Mr. Auguin said, “we don’t say, ‘this is pleasant music that sounds like Haydn.”’ Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z

Besides the Trump clan, this slice of Europe is the birthplace of Freud, Grimm’s fairy tales, the Nazi movement, schnitzel, pilsner beer and some of Europe’s great writers and musicians including Kafka, Dvorak and Mozart. Stalking the Trump Family’s Roots 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Straight out of grad school, he found himself in the pit for Mozart’s “Magic Flute.” Opera Has Vanished. So Have Their Dream Jobs at the Met. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Denis was a highly educated, civilised man with a range of interests, who you felt secretly wanted to be at home listening to his beloved Mozart. How Granada TV chairman Sir Denis Forman changed my life 2013-03-04T16:53:01Z

“But Mozart has the power to speak truth with beauty.” Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Mozart wrote the viola part in scordatura, meaning a tuning different from the norm. New York Philharmonic, Led by Jaap van Zweden 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

Mozart’s score of bright, agile vocal writing isn’t easy for aging singers, so Tcherniakov’s concept inevitably prioritized itself over the music. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

“I love classical music,” he said.“I like Mozart a whole lot.” David Geffen Captures Naming Rights to Avery Fisher Hall With Donation 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

From July 18 to Aug. 1, Carmel-by-the-Sea in California will host the 78th annual Carmel Bach Festival, focusing on the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and the musicians he influenced, such as Handel and Mozart. Wednesday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Not as thrilling an evening as last year's "Mozart Dances," perhaps — but a pleasurable one. Review: Mark Morris Dance Group and SSO in a rite of spring 2010-05-22T18:08:00Z

It was replaced with something more in line with the party’s aesthetics, what Kern describes as “a portrayal of Mozart as a naked Apollo figure with a lyre.” The Thorny History of the Salzburg Festival’s Logo 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Stylistically speaking, no one would call this cutting-edge Mozart. Review | Takacs Quartet delivers buoyant Mozart 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The most recent Carnegie appearances by Uchida, one of our reigning and most sensitive pianists, have been in works by Schubert and Mozart, two composers on which she built her reputation. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Nothing here looks like a show that would have anything resembling the impact of “Transparent” or offer the pleasure of “Mozart in the Jungle,” another recent Amazon series. Amazon Posts TV Pilots 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Operaphile alert: don’t miss the new production of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” with its current cast and James Levine conducting, that will be at the Metropolitan Opera through October 25th. “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Met 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

“In three minutes it goes from sounding like Mozart to sounding like Count Basie, then ending like ‘The Firebird.’ New pops conductor ready to put his stamp on symphony holiday program 2012-11-30T00:12:26Z

Of course there's no such thing a definitive list, and we could argue endlessly about which 10 pieces should be on it - my own personal choices would have to start with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto! BBC's Ten Pieces for schools: The verdict 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Meister was most impressive with the orchestra, offering, in addition to the Mozart overture and the Haydn concerto, a compelling performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. Review: Mostly Mozart, Highlighted by Sol Gabetta’s Haunting Vocalise 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Ross Lorraine's Not More Lovely revived the genre of melodrama, or music accompanying speech, as occasionally practised by composers such as Mozart and Strauss. Counterpoise | Classical review 2010-04-01T20:45:00Z

Though a pleasant scene setter for the opera, this overture, unlike others by Mozart, does not carry much drama of its own and is thus not the most effective concert piece. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z

Mr. Tritle describes Mozart’s approach in a short, informative video made for this occasion. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z

Yet the chief revelation was not differing aspects of interpretation but the inexhaustible treasures of Mozart's flickering, glittering score, which leave quite enough over for the next production, and the production after that. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

On Tuesday he was to lead the last two movements of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. He Sings, He Conducts (and He's Not Bad on the Oboe) 2010-08-03T20:53:00Z

I’m giving Beethoven the second slot, and Mozart No. 3. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Mr. Kaufmann’s voice has evolved in typical ways: youthful lightness, suitable for Mozart, giving way to depth more fitting for Verdi and Wagner. After 4 Years, Jonas Kaufmann Returns to the Met Opera 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Swafford’s engaging writing paints rich pictures of Mozart’s world and conjures up a lively, humorous man whose music often reflected his appetite for pleasure. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Headlining the program and occupying its entire second half, was the great Mozart Requiem. Review: a full stage, full of beauty for SSO Mozart program 2011-01-21T18:50:05Z

“It’s not as simple as, well, in Mahler, you need a big orchestra, but in Mozart, you don’t,” he said. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Backs Performers 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Two initial outings by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra offer starry violinists. The Week Ahead: July 31 ? Aug. 6 2011-07-28T15:11:28Z

Not that any listener familiar with Ms. Uchida’s Mozart is hoping for that. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Mozart at Caramoor 2010-06-27T21:49:00Z

The Clarinet Concerto and “Magic Flute” are often linked as having been cast in similar sweetly idealistic molds, revealing as they do Mozart’s love of life. Why 1791 in 2017? Gustavo Dudamel searches for meaning in Mozart's last year 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

"I'm not trying to write fake Mozart and I'm not trying to sort of put myself on a pedestal next to him," Jones told CBC Radio show "As it Happens." London music professor completes Mozart's unfinished works with self-described 'bloody cheek' 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Clarity and purity: When you’re singing Mozart’s music, you have to use particular muscles to be flexible yet keep the purity of the tone. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a gesture of benevolence, yet he makes it sound glowingly apt, even characteristic of Mozart. Bruno Walter, a Conductor Who Found Truth Through Beauty 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Brahms wrote his in 1891, after he had heard the Mozart quintet performed and grown infatuated with the clarinet’s sound. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

How this fascinating version of the work came to be says much about the general attitudes toward past masters in Mozart’s day. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z

His occasional whistling of a Mozart riff proves a vital clue to what’s going on. Review: ‘Three’ Asks, Any Mozart Aficionados in the House? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mostly Mozart features some of the world’s great musicians playing some of the world’s great music. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

Like other Austrian composers of the 18th century, Gluck and Mozart were fond of Turkish themes as inspirations for musical style. From Movement in Ancient Art to Radical Choreographers 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

And the score eschewed the flashy, dramatically irrelevant arias designed mainly to show off star singers, and was more akin to the crystalline style of Gluck's inventive younger contemporaries, Mozart and Haydn. Seattle Opera's 'Orpheus' is a love story for all time 2012-02-15T23:05:03Z

Mr. Fischer will return to the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center this summer with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” one of several well-regarded semi-staged productions for which he serves as both conductor and director. An Orchestra Triumphs Over Trump’s Travel Ban 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Turn to the 2012 Proms prospectus and you will find that this year's season features four pieces of music by Mozart. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

A Friday performance this month of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” drew a crowd that included dozens of attendees not yet old enough to rent a car. Drama! Divas! Dates! A New Generation of Fans Discovers the Opera 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

But for every Millais — or Mozart — there are many prodigies whose gifts do not survive puberty. Painting prodigy new art-world star 2010-08-14T22:50:00Z

Yet the NSO has yet to make Mozart fully its own; against Ax’s water-clear gentleness, even the strings, usually one of the group’s strengths, sounded a little strident. Review | A light Ax, a ponderous Fate: NSO plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

The skill of the great artist — whether a Michelangelo, a Mozart, a Mark Morris — is to fashion simplicity from complexity. The colorful restraint of the Mark Morris Dance Group 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

The piece exhibits "a series of components that are found repeatedly in other Mozart piano works," said the Mozarteum in a statement. Newly discovered Mozart piece performed 2012-03-23T16:37:08Z

And their authenticity, too: Strauss’s festival knew how to play Strauss, and it did Mozart — who was born here, as every tourist shop reminds you — proud. Alexander Pereira Leaves Austrian Festival for La Scala 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

My father even named his pug dog after Mozart's dog – Bimperl. Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect match 2012-06-22T21:55:15Z

On Monday evening, that blend produced a mostly successful concert by combining two well-known trios — a Beethoven and a Mozart — with the world premiere of “Sanctuary,” a septet in four movements by Lawrence Dillon. Chamber music fest continues with hits and near-misses 2013-07-09T16:54:45Z

Mr. Cleve made his Mostly Mozart debut in 1975 and over the next quarter-century returned to the festival more than half a dozen times. George Cleve, Conductor Who Interpreted Mozart, Dies at 79 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z

Turning from it to Mozart was almost a relief. Trio Zimmermann – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-15T17:06:06Z

The program also has works by Boulez and Ives and the finale of Act I of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z

Soon after they landed their current gigs, Ms. Fleming and Ms. O’Hara began trading emails and phone calls about topics like singing Mozart at the Met and how much to tip a Broadway dresser. An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

On Monday night, the Metropolitan Opera is scheduled, with a new production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” to open a season that many thought might never make it to the stage. Metropolitan Opera, with new contract, gears up for season that nearly wasn’t

Mr. Nelsons also plans to lead subscription concerts featuring works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, as well as works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. ArtsBeat: Andris Nelsons to Open Boston Symphony Season With a Flourish 2014-03-05T19:45:37Z

The first six, written between the ages of 16 and 21, are juvenilia, if juvenilia with a voice even Mozart yet hadn’t found at that age. Schubert's surprising relevance: Dudamel mines the promise of youth in trying times 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

But the season opens in understated fashion, with Anne-Sophie Mutter playing and leading the five Mozart violin concertos over two nights. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

As in Mozart's later version, Hell awaits him. Ten of the best lotharios in literature 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

Picrow also works with Amazon on the comedy series "Mozart in the Jungle," which is set in the classical music world. 'Transparent' on Amazon isn't tolerant when it comes to unions, musicians say 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

She left her core repertory — the Mozart heroines and four or five Verdi roles — only for Adriana Lecouvreur and Strauss’s Ariadne. Margaret Price Dies at 69, Soprano With Rich Voice 2011-02-01T06:51:50Z

Wolf Trap's prestigious opera program for young artists presents new productions of Mozart's "Zaide," Rossini's "Il Turco in Italia" and Britten's " Midsummer Night's Dream." Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

His late bloomer comment was a joke, but only partly — fitting for a concert that focused on Mozart’s artistic growth in the 1780s, his final full decade. Review: A Pianist Explores Mozart the Late Bloomer 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

In a recent telephone conversation, Mr. Sellars spoke about setting Mozart in Trump Tower, a decision that now seems oddly prescient. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

The pianist Mitsuko Uchida opens the festival by playing and conducting Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 with the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z

Music has been a primary concern — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Dvorak. 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother': Raising kids the 'hyper-severe' Chinese way 2011-01-14T19:44:06Z

Writing in The New York Times about Mr. Maazel’s program of Mozart and Debussy last week, Vivien Schweitzer was reminded of the “polished but perfunctory music-making and unadventurous programming” that often characterized his tenure. Music Review: Maazel Leads Philharmonic in Strauss Program - Review 2011-10-21T23:38:55Z

It is an apt companion for the Met’s other family fare for the holidays: Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” which opened last week. Review: ‘Cinderella’ Adds Stardust to the Met Opera’s Holiday 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

He has performed the five Beethoven concertos on two successive programs, and during the 2005-6 season he acknowledged the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s death by playing and conducting the 23 Mozart piano concertos. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

The eminent pianist Maurizio Pollini is the soloist in Mozart’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 21 in C. Then Mr. Levine, acclaimed for his Mahler, will lead his players in the composer’s powerful Ninth Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mozart is still present and correct, of course: Iván Fischer returns with the Budapest Festival Orchestra for his production of “Don Giovanni.” 10 Spring and Summer Classical Festivals 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The most likely explanation for his death is that Mozart caught the streptococcal inflection that was going around at his Masonic lodge. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

A necropsy revealed Mozart bled to death after being struck by a pellet that traveled between two ribs and nicked a pulmonary artery. Shooting of Salma Hayek's Dog Was 'Justified,' Police Say 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The joke was that on Wednesday he was onstage with quite a different threesome: the eminent Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, whose repertory is generally closer to that of Mozart than to “Message in a Bottle.” Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio With Sting - Review 2011-09-15T22:01:22Z

Balanchine he always recognized as a genius — once likening him to Shakespeare and Mozart, whom he described as “comparable geniuses in other art forms.” Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mozart, in his day, was “entertainment”; Beethoven was “entertainment”; Liszt and Chopin certainly were; and even Wagner was. Slickness as transgression: Piano duo pushes boundaries 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Fry responded in an angry public letter that went on for four pages in Willis’s magazine and condemned standard symphonic writing, including pieces by Mozart and Beethoven. When the New York Philharmonic Fought Over Santa Claus 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

And she was celebrated by audiences for her virtuoso takes on well-known pieces, including the Rondo alla Turca from Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 11. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

So says soprano Sera Gösch, who was raised in Istanbul, but lives in the Austrian town that was home to Mozart, Beethoven and other musical luminaries. ‘Interpretation of Trees’ on exhibit at the Embassy of Argentina 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

If Mozart, opera or performance art interest you, consider dropping by. ArtsBeat Blog: A Magical Musical Moment, Extended to 12 Hours 2011-11-20T01:16:06Z

When I reached St. Stephen’s, a morning prayer service was being whispered next to the side chapel where Mozart was married in 1782, just nine years before his funeral Mass there. Why early-morning walks are the best way for travelers to explore new places 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

In this sense, Abraham is well matched with Mozart and Jlin. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Out There ‘Requiem,’ With Nods to Mozart 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

He contrasted concertos in D major and minor, and made explicit the connections between two Mozart works — arguments that were more persuasive from the keyboard than from his perch as conductor. Review: The Philharmonic’s Artist in Residence Wears Two Hats 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

Drawn primarily from letters among family members, “The Other Mozart” employs the solo-performer format uniquely suited to depicting the solitary, alienated life of Maria Anna, nicknamed Nannerl. 'The Other Mozart'? Her name was Maria Anna, and she dazzlingly comes to life onstage 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

He arrives home just in time to experience even worse torture: the annual family musicale, in which several of his young female cousins are playing a Mozart quartet with excruciating awfulness. Summer reading: Sizzling romance and more 2012-06-15T17:13:51Z

The pianist Conrad Tao played an elegantly unruffled Mozart concerto and a daydreamy “Rhapsody in Blue.” Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Using taped music by Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart and Bach, it sets big, showy movements and emphatic dynamics where the music is subtle and often gentle. Review: Eccentricity and Offbeat Humor by BalletX 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Friday’s program was originally meant to feature Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, not the Mozart. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

The New York Philharmonic retreats this weekend into a program out of the 1950s: the overture to “Die Fledermaus,” Mozart’s “Turkish” violin concerto and Brahms’s Fourth Symphony. Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching ‘Salome’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Why hasn’t Tully been the hall of choice for Mostly Mozart from the start? Lincoln Center Still Has Mostly Mozart, but What Is It? 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Years ago, she says, her management wanted her to focus on Mozart. Beautiful, young Met soprano has a darker past she wants to share 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

In “Meeting Mozart,” she describes the 16-year-old Beethoven after a three-week winter journey to Vienna, “burning” to be taught by the master. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Only a Mozart sonata, the K. 576 in D, left me unconvinced, its hardness of edge more appropriate to the Haydn heard as a captivating encore. Marc-André Hamelin Performs Variations on Paganini 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The Mozart concerto was rewarding from start to finish. Music Review: A Workout for Winds and Brasses 2011-08-17T22:22:48Z

This thick book contains English verse translations of the German and Italian librettos for the major Mozart operas. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

Letters from Mozart indicate that Grassi’s brother Joseph, also an artist, painted a miniature of Mozart. Are Those Pictures Really Mozart? 2013-02-06T16:16:58Z

Khristenko’s Mozart left an imprint on the expanded orchestra, inspiring the musicians to explore a broader spectrum of its collective sonic power. Pianist Khristenko helps Fairfax Symphony finish season joyously 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

WARSAW, Feb 1 - Polish Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, once described as the "Mozart of Poetry," died on Wednesday, after suffering from lung cancer. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z

Ms. Uchida, much admired as a Mozart interpreter, also performed Mozart concertos earlier this month at Carnegie with the Cleveland Orchestra and is offering master classes this week for young pianists. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Notes as Delicate as a Crane’s Legs 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Over the following years the repertoire has grown and diversified enormously, but Mozart has remained pivotal. Glyndebourne and Figaro: a perfect match 2012-06-22T21:55:15Z

Still, in revitalizing the Mostly Mozart Festival, Mr. Langrée and Ms. Moss never suggested that they were abandoning the concept of a summer venture focused on its namesake. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

With a production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro due to open on 22 September, a lockout could derail the Met's forthcoming season before it has even begun. Met Opera in late union talks 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Then the thoughtful pianist David Fray was an elegant soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor. Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The programs for July and August are particularly rich, with performances of popular composers like Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Gounod, Dvorak, Granados and others, played by distinguished soloists, chamber groups and orchestras. In Transit: In Paris, Classical Music at a Holy Site 2011-07-13T10:00:04Z

The two others, on Thursday and Saturday, featured the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, who was the soloist in a Mozart concerto in the orchestral concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mozart interpreters find in the last symphonies elegance, fire, breadth, passion and affection. Music of the Baroque left them shouting in the aisles 2011-05-24T16:14:47Z

And at home, Richie’s grandmother, Adelaide Foster, who played piano and taught Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Lionel Richie can’t slow down, and we’re all the richer for it 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

He focused on music of the previous hundred years and rarely went back beyond Schumann and Berlioz to Beethoven, Mozart or Haydn. The Conductor Who Whipped American Orchestras Into Shape 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

Presumably their performance also warmed them up for the main event: Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings in D minor, the centerpiece of a concert by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Music Review: Joshua Bell With Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:18:00Z

They ended their recital with that Mozart Trio, Widmann's clarinet leading the way in the beautifully matched phrases and Tamestit's viola full of lyrical warmth. Widmann/Tamestit/Piemontesi – review 2013-02-15T15:52:00Z

He assumes they’ve seen “Mozart in the Jungle,” because he’s heard it’s a TV show; he assumes they’ve watched the Golden Globe Awards. Perspective | A world-famous conductor performed in a D.C. public school. The result? Mixed marks. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

"Mozart in the Jungle," whose first season is available starting Tuesday, , is loosely inspired by oboist Blair Tindall's 2005 nonfiction book that depicted sex, drugs and other forms of debauchery in the classical-music profession. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

The C-minor concerto is one of Mozart’s most dramatic; yet its angst and gloom mostly simmer, only rarely coming to a boil. Review: Lang Lang, Classical Music’s Superstar, Returns Quietly 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Experts, he notes, could include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in music and your neighborhood baker in breads, Marie Curie in science and a grandmaster in chess known only to aficionados of the game. Why MacArthur fellowships matter: In modern culture, expertise is under fire 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

The actual Mozart began with his Symphony No. 28, still a youthful work, but one with depth and amazing maturity. Review: a full stage, full of beauty for SSO Mozart program 2011-01-21T18:50:05Z

Ms. Moss has helped change that perception, first at Mostly Mozart, which Mark Swed wrote in The Los Angeles Times had become “maybe the hippest summer music festival in America,” and then with White Light. Lincoln Center to End Its Namesake Summer Festival 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Mainly Mozart Series packages pieces by its namesake composer with works by Haydn and Vieuxtemps. Seattle Symphony's new season: 'Doctor Atomic' is in there, so is 'Rite of Spring' 2011-01-19T20:11:23Z

Mozart in the Jungle is available on Amazon Prime. Gael García Bernal: ‘Donald Trump calls Mexicans rapists and drug dealers. ​It’s hate discourse’ 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

After Maurizio Pollini’s Mozart program with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra last week, I worried that his ailing fingers might, at 72, be holding him back. Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Mozart’s music is messed with in many ways, particularly by inserting sections from Mozart’s Mass in C Minor as a kind of transcendental commentary. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

As in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," Scalia is made to undergo three trials. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

You cannot say that Mr. Alden, who gave City Opera a terrific production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and a revelatory staging of Bernstein’s “Quiet Place,” brings the opera’s subtext of desire to the surface. Music Review: City Opera?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-03-19T22:28:54Z

Some of Levine’s most persuasively illuminating performances happened to revolve around compassionately confronting the frailties, foibles and outright crimes of Mozart’s characters as they are coaxed into an examination of inner lives. On the Met's James Levine, and the age-old debate of separating the art from the artist 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

That theme opens many doors for programming: The classical period’s champions and inheritors include Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, whose music will appear in a variety of concerts from Oct. Looking Back on Haydn’s Legacy at the Chamber Music Society 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mozart was well enough to conduct it three days later at the dedication of his Masonic temple, New Crowned Hope. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

This was the homestretch of ICE’s ambitious “50 for 50” project, with which the ensemble set out to perform one premiere for each of the Mostly Mozart Festival’s years during its anniversary season. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

The young Finn, who had a brief early career in a rock band, is known for his Mozart and Handel. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Currentzis will also lead Utopia in performances of Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Amid Global Turmoil, Salzburg Festival Plans a Summer of Reflection 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

This was Mozart with a clenched grin, drive and aggression taking the place of wit. Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

But sometimes it distracts from the richness of Mozart’s harmonically intense and complex music during the many intricate ensembles in which the lovers go through moments of genuine confusion and torment. Review: As James Levine Sues, the Met Opera Opens a New ‘Così’ 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Next spring, the choir promise the delicious prospect of a scholarly reappraisal of Mozart's Requiem and its many alternative completions. Choir of King's College; Exaudi; Tallis Scholars – review 2012-10-27T23:17:28Z

It was a delightful throwback to the earlier decades of the 20th century, when using a piano in Mozart was standard. Music Review: Mozart’s ‘Nozze di Figaro’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-10-28T21:12:53Z

Up in the air is the ultimate fate of the Mostly Mozart orchestra, a high-quality, carefully built and expensive group whose music director, Louis Langrée, has been on its podium since 2002. Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Rich was a child prodigy, playing Mozart at 4. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

He won Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Competition in spite of a memory lapse that froze him as he performed Mozart in the semi-finals. Prize-winning pianist caught between anger and ecstasy 2013-06-24T17:29:12Z

Before a recent Mozart lesson, he and Bidini exchanged a few words and Kim sat at the piano, his hands a blur. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Mozart and Da Ponte lend this nobleman a true nobility of character, which is what makes his tyrannical arrogance no mere transgression but a tragedy. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

It’s like a mantelpiece glittering with snapshots from the ages with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and others that showcase Ms. Mutter’s honeyed tone. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Richard Reed Parry, Brahms and More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Amada’s painting and Mozart’s opera become part of a tangled net of references and symbols. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

After the Mozart, Ms. Fleming, in lovely voice, sang the Rückert-Lieder. Music Review: Luisi Crosses Border To American Territory 2012-01-16T22:54:23Z

He played Mozart’s G Major Concerto, K. 453, and he made Mozart’s cadenzas sound fresh and smooth, the work of a young man, spooling out of his hands and heart. Review | A light Ax, a ponderous Fate: NSO plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Joshua Bell, an audience favorite, returns as the soloist in Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, after Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 and Kodaly’s “Dances of Galanta.” 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

But they are Beethoven’s last word in the solo sonata, a genre he inherited from Mozart and Haydn and that he radically transformed to suit his own expressive aims. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Mozart's next-to-last stage work, a mixture of fairy tale and Masonic morality play, is a miraculous creation whose music has a sublime simplicity. Peter Brook reduces Mozart to bare essentials 2011-07-07T06:31:08Z

Sounding indignant and hurt, Mr. Bilson said that he had tried to play the Mozart on the modern piano as “beautifully as I could.” At the Bard Music Festival, Concerts and Argument 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Turning Ferrando’s statements into questions is problematic for me, since Mozart’s music seems assertive, not incredulous. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

It is also Stravinsky’s savvy, admiring musical commentary on Mozart opera. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Which 20th-Century Masters Will Make the Cut? 2011-01-12T13:43:50Z

The maestro is understandably tired, having just finished rehearsals for not one but two operas, Mozart’s “The Abduction From the Seraglio” and Richard  Strauss’ “Salome,” which opens Feb. 18.  Conductor James Conlon on L.A. Opera's Grammy nominations, and why the odds are stacked against them 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

As George Bernard Shaw wrote, Bach’s theme is religion and Mozart’s is characters, but “Beethoven was the first man who used music with absolute integrity as the expression of his own emotional life.” 17 Works, 9 Hours, 10 Days: My Beethoven Quartet Marathon 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

In fact, in the case of Mozart, it is clear his upbringing was also remarkable in terms of stimulating his abilities. David Shenk's bright idea: Genius isn't in the genes 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z

Carroll isn’t just big in the little way that Beatrix Potter is big; his bigness is as universally agreed upon as the bigness of Mozart or Molière or Wayne Gretzky. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

Of course there are run-of-the-mill pieces, but mostly Mozart is too full of surprise and original invention to settle for that "mundane Viennese" rap. The full Mozart 2011-01-12T12:24:01Z

As part of the prize for that victory he is being presented in this recital, playing works by Mozart, Brahms, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky. Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 9-15 2014-05-08T22:52:26Z

Mozart, like Mahler, was simply a better composer. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

A planned concert by the two groups this month was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, so on May 22 the ensemble will stream the Mostly Mozart concert on its YouTube channel. Finally, a Stage for Female Composers From Iran 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

But the Oratorio Society of New York, under its music director, Kent Tritle, certainly did so on Monday night at Carnegie Hall with a vibrant performance of the piece in the seldom-heard arrangement by Mozart. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z

Votkinsk-born Tchaikovsky shares two programs with Salzburg native Mozart in the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s “Russian Spectacular” this week. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z

Sensitive accompaniments for soloists of the caliber of Rudolf Serkin and Zino Francescatti aside, there is little here of Ormandy’s muscular Beethoven, and his Mozart is limited to one, brilliantly effervescent symphony. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Amplification didn’t tarnish these works, as it might a Mozart symphony. Music Review: JACK Quartet at Rite of Summer Music Festival 2012-08-05T21:51:17Z

When so much of Mostly Mozart now feels thoughtfully determined, a hit parade stands out more; while “The Illuminated Heart” was clearly organized with care, it felt a bit scattershot. Review: A Gussied-Up Gala of Mozart Opera Excerpts 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Although as Roe points out in the booklet notes, their musical DNA relates to slow movements in Mozart or Beethoven, the sound is uniquely Field’s. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Amazon has won the best comedy award in three of its past four tries, with nods for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Transparent” and the little-watched and much-forgotten “Mozart in the Jungle.” Golden Globes 2019: What to watch For 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Brook pared Mozart’s opera down to a streamlined 100-minute version, performed by just seven singers, two actors and an onstage pianist. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

Mozart offset his last days on Earth publicly sharing visions of utopia, but seething not far under the surface is the composer’s sense of political righteousness he still couldn’t express outright. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Director Oskar Eustis sounded as though he was after something similar to what Sellars was up to with Handel and Mozart, using Shakespeare’s tragedy as a mirror to nature, often revealing “disturbing, upsetting, provoking things.” Mozart in Trump Tower, and the art of getting political onstage 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Give the restaurant at least three days’ advance notice and you can request a pair of luxurious classics from Villa Mozart: lobster penne and truffled duck foie gras ravioli in sage sauce. Eight road-trip-worthy restaurants in Maryland and Virginia 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

But then it was a little bit of this and that — some Mozart for mechanical organ, two short Schumann fugues, the first movement from Widor's Fifth Organ Symphony. The proof is in: The pipe organ is still the king of instruments 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The first Undress for the Opera evening will be held on 15 November, when Norris's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni will be performed. ENO announce 'dress down' scheme 2012-10-03T14:29:48Z

As his podium career expanded, he led a Mozart cycle at the Vienna State Opera and a Monteverdi cycle at the Zurich Opera. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

But now the Vienna museum dedicated to Mozart's legacy has launched a campaign to burnish Salieri's reputation as a supporter of the younger Austrian genius - and not a jealous villain. Mozart museum seeks to debunk evil Salieri poison myth 2014-01-30T15:48:12Z

The concert opened with the 12 choristers and 20 orchestra players giving a soft-spoken account of the poignant “Lacrimosa” from Mozart’s Requiem. Mixing Healing and Strife, the Met Opera Sings Again 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

In an encore with the Virginia Symphony in 1981, he played the slow second movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21. Carlos Moseley, Former President and Chairman of New York Philharmonic, Dies at 98 2012-10-02T05:23:02Z

But despite — or, perhaps, because of — its García Márquez-ish surreal touches, what is most surprising about the 10-episode first season of “Mozart” is how true its depiction of the classical music industry rings. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

The final section of the “Jupiter” Symphony features some of the most remarkable music Mozart composed, a fitting way to end a festival dedicated to his oeuvre. Music Review: Louis Langrée Leads Mostly Mozart Festival’s Grand Finale 2013-08-25T19:36:27Z

Next year she will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mostly Mozart by commissioning 50 composers to write short pieces for ICE. Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The mezzo-soprano was a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

For this one night Rossini took pride of place at the Mostly Mozart festival, thanks to Mr. Noseda. Music Review: Gianandrea Noseda in His Mostly Mozart Debut 2013-08-14T21:01:46Z

In 2013, Mr. Tapping played alongside the violist he was replacing, Samuel Rhodes, in quintets by Mr. Rhodes and Mozart. Review: Juilliard String Quartet Shows Agility at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

What a fountain of musical ideas Mozart poured into that music! Pianist Lang Lang, once dubbed ‘Bang Bang’ for his flashy technique, brings exquisite refinement to Seattle Symphony concert 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Fujita’s playing, gossamer without sacrificing the sturdy consonance of Mozart’s style, has a prettiness all its own. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The sparkle carried over to Mozart, who wrote the concerto as a loving dialogue for himself and his sister. L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Julian Rachlin, the newly appointed principal guest conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, will lead the orchestra through a performance of works from Mozart and Beethoven, at the Barbican in London. Player/conductor role: 'exciting' 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

If it's not Mozart then please stop deifying these men. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

The show reunites them after a production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at California State University at Fullerton, where they were undergraduates together. Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z

Pärt reveres Mozart, referring to him as the greatest of them all, especially when it comes to expressing the wonder of the divine spirit. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

His part of the bargain is to soften in her presence and to introduce her to sophisticated pleasures like Mozart and movies with subtitles. Review: In ‘Me Before You,’ a Broken Man Meets a Free Spirit 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

But it is, Mr. Jacobs asserted recently in a phone interview from Germany, “the masterpiece of all the operas of Mozart.” This Conductor’s Mozart Isn’t for the Faint of Ear 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

It's taken from a 1911 book by composer Arnold Schoenberg, in which he illuminates the harmonic language of Mahler, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and Bach. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

Chris is a sort of Mozart of the rifle, but it takes a particular and peculiar confluence of circumstances for him to marshal his talent for something more than sport. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Even at the height of her operatic career, her voice was a light lyric soprano, ideal for roles like Strauss’s Sophie and Mozart’s Susanna. Review: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met After 22 Years. It Was Worth the Wait. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Mehta did not push the Viennese, and Mozart and Brahms succumbed to blandness. The Toyota effect: 30 years later, one man's acoustic designs still rule how we hear music 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The choreographer George Balanchine was particularly fond of the theme-and-variations format, as practiced by Mozart, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Hindemith and others. From Movement in Ancient Art to Radical Choreographers 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

In Mozart’s time, percussion instruments had little role in the standard orchestra, with the exception of the timpani, or kettle drums. Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

That 1990 performance, moreover, was the last time that the BBC Symphony Orchestra – still the principal orchestra and spinal cord of the Proms – played a Mozart symphony in any Proms season. The Proms' neglect of Mozart means we are losing touch with his true genius 2012-07-19T21:00:04Z

The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will be conducted by the festival’s music director, Louis Langrée, who recently led the program with his other ensemble, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. At Mostly Mozart Festival This Summer, Lots of Beethoven 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

“It was an extraordinary adventure for him to be able to go into the world of Mozart and to be able to bring it onto the stage,” she said in an interview. A Chagall Curtain Needs a New Home With a Tall Ceiling 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

With Mozart and Beethoven, I feel like I'd be tinkering with something that is already much more revised and refined in its exposition. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z

Topi Lehtipuu, an accomplished Mozart singer, lends his sweet tenor to Adam, investing him with vulnerability in the process. Review: Better the Devil You Don't Know? 2010-03-02T12:00:00Z

Of unusual interest on the Symphony Center Presents Piano Series will be two recitals by Andras Schiff devoted to the final sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. CSO goes back to the future for 2015-16 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The music includes popular 20th-century songs — by Al Bowlly, the Ink Spots, Tammy Wynette and others — as well as Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi. Review: The Inspired Poetry of Gandini Juggling 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

That exuberance carried over into Mozart’s Sonata in D Major, K. 311, and even at such speed, the music had buoyancy, like a kite held aloft in a breeze. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

But, as ever with Mozart, simple things mean so much more than they say. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

Simon was startled that Mozart could have spoken so childishly and vulgarly; at first, when he said his lines, the cast got the giggles. How we made: Peter Shaffer and Felicity Kendal on Amadeus 2013-01-14T18:59:01Z

"It was liberating because you think okay, that's right, Mozart already did that, Wagner already did that, so what new can be done?" Police drummer, Monty Python comic turn to opera 2011-04-05T15:44:40Z