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...Sanders Theater last Wednesday (this time wearing a pink shawl and the same sneakers). The relationship between music and dance was the focus of his discussion with former Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer, a fitting preview to the Boston premiere of Morris’s “Mozart Dances” at the Boston Opera House last weekend...
...choreographing “Mozart Dances,” Morris had an added consideration. Mozart’s music is notoriously tricky to choreograph to, Dyer explained to the audience. He mentioned that famed ballet choreographer George Balanchine himself allegedly claimed difficulty when setting dances to Mozart’s music...
...Bartabas says, Darshan - meaning "vision of the divine" in Sanskrit - is a poetic meditation on "the horse as a vehicle for voyages in every sense of the term: voyages across countries and cultures, seasons and time, but also voyages within ourselves." Music as disparate as Tibetan chants and Mozart's masses plunges viewers into meditative states. Spectators are left to draw their own narrative from the flow of primal shadow images of warriors eating atop their mounts by twilight, processions of angels and demons, a meeting of primitive man and stallion, and a pied piper trailed by a train...
Even pro chess players - a population inured to demonstrations of extraordinary intellect - have been electrified by Carlsen's rise. A grand master at 13 (the third youngest in history) and a conqueror of top players at 15, he is often referred to as the Mozart of chess for the seeming ease of his mastery. In September, he announced a coaching contract with Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest player of all time, who quit chess in 2005 to pursue a political career in Russia. "Before he is done," Kasparov says, "Carlsen will have changed our ancient game considerably." (See pictures...
...homework more than doubled. Bookstores offered Brain Foods for Kids: Over 100 Recipes to Boost Your Child's Intelligence. The state of Georgia sent every newborn home with the CD Build Your Baby's Brain Through the Power of Music, after researchers claimed to have discovered that listening to Mozart could temporarily help raise IQ scores by as many as 9 points. By the time the frenzy had reached its peak, colleges were installing "Hi, Mom!" webcams in common areas, and employers like Ernst & Young were creating "parent packs" for recruits to give Mom and Dad, since they were involved...