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...combines a choice selection of Cézannes with the work of 18 artists whose practices owe something to his. Organized by Joseph Rishel, the museum's chief curator of European painting before 1900, and adjunct curator Katherine Sachs, the show is dedicated to Rishel's late wife Anne d'Harnoncourt. For years the Philadelphia Museum's smart and spirited director, d'Harnoncourt died, much too soon, last year. Had she lived to see this fascinating mix and match, which runs through May 19, she would have loved...
DIED During more than a quarter-century as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anne d'Harnoncourt became one of the most powerful and respected women in her field, driving a massive expansion-and-renovation project that helped turn the museum's collection of modern and contemporary art into one of the world's finest. Following in the footsteps of her father René d'Harnoncourt, noted director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, she presided over numerous widely praised exhibitions, including a large Paul Cézanne retrospective in 1996 and a showing of Salvador Dal?...
...with an incongruous mix of kitsch and high culture. "Salzburg without Mozart is hardly imaginable. Without Mozart, I really couldn't say how this city would be," says Heinz Schaden, Salzburg's mayor. An all-star lineup of musicians will be performing in town this year, including conductors Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle. And for the first time, the annual Salzburg Festival in July and August will be staging every single one of Mozart's 22 operas. Festival organizers expect a huge run on tickets. Herbert Brugger, managing director of the tourism board, says the town began...
...leading DVD sellers. Cases in point: Levine's two-disc version of Tristan and Isoldewith the Met, featuring tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Jane Eaglen, on Deutsche Grammophon ($39.98), and Cecilia Bartoli Sings Mozart and Haydn, a two-disc set with the Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, on BBC/Opus Arte...
...initial recognition of her talents at age nineteen by Riccardo Muti, Bartoli has ascended into the ranks of the most skilled and sought-after mezzo-soprani in the world. Her early career established her reputation with collaborations with such musical luminaries as Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She has since worked with such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, Christopher Hogwood, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, and Sir Simon Rattle to name...