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...village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers when the village chief threatens to punish him for playing a Mozart tune. Quick-witted Luo saves the day by explaining that the name of the song is "Mozart Is Always Thinking of Chairman Mao." You can see the forlornness in the boys' eyes as they begin to sense the worst fear of every teenager: they are going to die of boredom...
...Arte Chamber Orchestra. Music by Beethoven, Mozart and Copland, followed by a wine and cheese singles reception courtesy of Pro Amore. Sunday, Jan. 12 at 3 p.m. Tickets $9-$42, available at the Harvard Box Office or call (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...even know how my voice sounds without smoking." If Kirchschlager's habits are unconventional, so is the way she happened into her career. Though she is from Salzburg, she grew up dreaming of becoming a journalist or a broadcaster, not of singing arias by Mozart, the city's most famous son. She studied piano and percussion and only switched to singing when she scraped into the Vienna Music Academy by a narrow vote of the entrance panel. "I was the last one they admitted," she says, with a mix of relish and wonderment at how things have turned...
...Mozart...
BRITAIN Firemen Strike, Brits Shrug If the compositions of Bach and Mozart send some listeners into raptures, they also send some folks packing. Danish railway authorities used high-volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike...