Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jordan and Lewinsky. Currie, whose stricken face as she left the grand jury became a national freeze-frame a month ago, is reportedly calmer now, not terrified of a return engagement but not exactly looking forward to it. She spent Saturday night at the Kennedy Center seeing Don Giovanni, Mozart's opera about a doomed Spanish Lothario whose loyal servant kept a long list of his lovers. Currie's friends were sure of her instincts: "She'll follow the truth, not a road map," said one. But the White House was taking no chances. "It's great for us," said...
Critics of teaching popular culture at theundergraduate level say these new course offeringrespond too much to students who feel that Madonnais more relevant to their lives than Mozart...
People with bipolar depression can function normally, even exceptionally, for years. Mozart, Poe and Van Gogh are thought to have had the disorder. But without diagnosis and medication, the sufferer risks becoming manic, delusional and attracted to risk. In 1995 LeTourneau began slipping over. Her beloved father was found to have terminal cancer. Her marriage was troubled. And in January 1996 she suffered both a miscarriage and severe depression...
DIED. SHINICHI SUZUKI, 99, Japan's Pied Piper, whose methods of instruction have taught millions of toddlers worldwide a new mother tongue, classical music; in Tokyo. Putting his techniques into widespread practice in the 1950s, Suzuki coached his tiny pupils to memorize Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and, later, Mozart's concertos--without their necessarily being able to read a note...
...Robert D. Levin, Robinson professor of the humanities, presented the first lecture of Literature and Arts B-54, "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel," for a second time to a crowd of several hundred...