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...tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful?if grossly inaccurate?response...
...comedy, with witty and sometimes laugh-out-loud commentary on the idiosyncrasies of Harvard. After all these years, some things about Harvard never change, as evidenced by the opening song, “A Freshman’s Lament”: a classmate boasts of his studies at the Mozart Institute in Salzberg or of his recently published book, which provokes another panicked classmate to cry in the chorus, “Good God, why am I here? There must be some mistake, they picked the wrong guy...” Also included: a serenade to tax evasion...
DIED. JENS NYGAARD, 69, defiantly unconventional founder and conductor of the Jupiter Symphony; of bone-marrow cancer; in New York City. Nygaard's sweeping knowledge of music gave rise to innovative, widely admired concert programs, often featuring works by Mozart (such as Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter," for which the orchestra was named). Nygaard raised money for the symphony himself; during one lean period, he paid each of his musicians with subway tokens and a book of sonnets...
...compositions for the marimba. Samuragoch himself remembers composing his own music at age 10. Although he studied piano as a child, he didn't have much formal training and taught himself to compose. He is a traditionalist, a student and an admirer of such Western composers as Beethoven and Mozart, and he is dismissive of modern, atonal music. "I like harmony," he says. "Sometimes I think I was born at the wrong time...
...trademarks: a good woman (lovely Kelly Lin) drawn into a web of haunted men, an escalator scene (it's his favorite form of criminal transport) and an explosive climax. Literally: Lau and Sorimachi are in a fireworks warehouse. "We've got stuff exploding everywhere to the music of Mozart's Figaro," says To, for once enthusiastic. "It's fantastical, it's magical. I think this film will change a few minds in Hong Kong. It's the new look for Milkyway. It's amazing stuff...