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...knew what to call it at first, so the numbers became the name. On this 9/11 there will be bells and bagpipes and a rolling requiem of choirs singing Mozart from time zone to time zone, circling the globe with love and lament. But for the 11 people TIME has followed this year, it may be just another day: for a girl in New Jersey without her dad, a day of avoiding the news; for a girl in Pakistan with divided loyalties, a day of avoiding her friends. For a commando in Afghanistan and a Customs inspector in Detroit...
...invited to live in Hollywood actress Melanie Griffith's home as a philanthropic gesture, the actress announced at a charity dinner in France 600 tons of chemical agents might be stockpiled in Iraq, say U.N. weapons experts 170 choirs worldwide will mark the Sept. 11 anniversary by performing Mozart's Requiem at 8:46 a.m. in each of the earth's 24 time zones...
TIME: How will the BPO's repertoire change under your direction? RATTLE: There are a lot of areas of music that the orchestra has not played much in the last years, surprisingly including Haydn and Mozart. I like to have a good deal of unusual music in a season, but that does not necessarily have to be contemporary...
Amadeus, written by Peter Shaffer, tells the story of composer Antonio Salieri and his jealousy for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Vienna Court. It features what HRST Publicity Coordinator Maggie S. Lehrman ’04 called “lavish costumes” and a “simple...
...Lester Young Story" (which Sony, shamefully, has still not put out on compact disc) was released in the late 1970s, a critic enthused that this was "jazz at its most Mozartean," and Daniels' take on this assessment is revealing. "The critics' Eurocentric emphasis - as when they likened Young to Mozart, for example - was also troubling? both in and of itself and because it carried such bald connotations of racial superiority in the suggestion that the saxophonist was worthy of comparison with this or that European master." I'll tell you what - rather than troubling yourself plowing through this pompous...