Mozart News

Music lovers who missed Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Backstage Pass Series concert Thursday, missed something special.

Three years ago, the classical music world went bananas celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.

SITTING in a 1st century Roman amphitheatre watching a 16th century opera performed in 20th century costume was a confusing experience.

Martin Majkut, one of five conductors competing for the artistic helm of the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the orchestra's second concert series of the season beginning Friday, Nov.

''A Musical Triptych,'' this Sunday's entry in an ongoing series of benefit recitals for the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, brings together a disparate trio of musicians, all of whom are connected in one way or another.

For almost 46 years the Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta has been hosting classical concerts free of charge as a showcase for their scholarship program for promising young musicians to study at the Mozarteum in Austria.

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero can't quite explain her improvisational talents, though she does offer this: "I hear a ' I dona TMt think," she says.

Deep within the historic Vienna State Opera, Franz Welser-M st is poring over scores used and notated by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, two of its more distinguished former directors.

Morihiko Nakahara constructed his Oktoberfest concert with the S.C. Philharmonic like a true scholar.

Insanae et vanae curae is a curiosity in the Haydn catalogue, a storm-tossed chorus rescued from his aria-heavy oratorio, The Return of Tobias.

The Tri-Cities Opera hopes its mix of productions and cost- containment measures will lead to a successful 61st season.

Mozart, Freud, Klimt. Those who came to Vienna in centuries gone by to join the heart of European activity are now the very attractions that draw crowds of tourists to the Austrian capital today.

Thomas Hampson to Make Debut as NY Philharmonic's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence 11/5, 11/7, 11/10 Thursday, October 29, 2009; Posted: 12:10 PM - by BWW News Desk Baritone Thomas Hampson will give his first performances as the New York Philharmonic 's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence when he joins the Orchestra, led by ...

MIDCOAST : Belfast. On Saturday, November 14th at 1:00 PM the Hutchinson Center Arts Celebration invites you to the second in our opera presentations.

MARGARET: David. DAVID: You have got to lift your hat to people who make a film like this on the smell of an oily rag, presumably with no government assistance.

13 2:42 Alessandro Stradella: Aria: Pieta 2:50 Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata No.

In spite of the lugubrious theme of the program, thunderous ovations hailed the opening of the Los Angeles Master Chorale's 46th season on Oct.

Mozart has remained at the core of the classical repertory for more than two centuries because of all composers it's he who has most felicitously transformed every emotional state - from sadness to extreme pleasure - into accessible, beguiling music.

"I think at heart I am really a teacher, as well as a performer," he said. "The teaching never stops from the podium - I think that's the way Bernstein thought, too." Markward, the third candidate for the position of music director of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, will conduct the community orchestra in music of Mozart, Beethoven and Prokofiev, ...

When discussing classical musical prodigies, two stand above the rest - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn.