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...reverse any preconceptions about 10-year-old singers that we might have formed during our own disjointed renditions of The Twelve Days of Christmas and O Come All Ye Faithful in primary school. As the Vienna Choir Boys performed a sophisticated repertoire of Haydn, Isaak, Bruckner, Schubert, Salieri and Mozart, they brought fifth graders to rare musical heights. But while the concert was supposed to promote the talent of child singers, it might have inadvertently done something else--and affirmed the supremacy of adults...
Just when it seemed impossible to assess the Vienna Choir Boys without adding some qualification (i.e. they were good--for little boys), they sang their finale, Mozart's Mass in C Major and forged such a herculean comeback, it was as though another choir had donned their white sailor suits during intermission. Not only did the choir boys sing the sacred prayer with everything on target--their key, their inflections, even their infusion of reverence--but the choir introduced a soloist who sent a shiver down the spine of every patron in Symphony Hall. Terence...
...Master Singers are coming! The Master Singers are coming! What has the residents of Lexington so excited? Not the Revolution, but "Chorus and Guitar," a presentation of selections from Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Fernando Sor, Whitman Brown, Joaquin Rodrigo and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 8 p.m. First Parish Church, 7 Harrington Rd., Lexington. (781) 862-6459. $14, $12 seniors and students...
...then by the stunning acquisition of words, of ABCs and 1-2-3s. "My child is bright. My child will excel in school. My child will make me proud." Industries are built on such aspirations. There are black-and-white mobiles to stimulate the senses and tapes of Mozart for Your Mind. Later come investments in Reader Rabbit software, encyclopedias and lessons to train every facet of body, brain and soul. But a child's success cannot be purchased, nor, to the frustration of parents everywhere, can it be wished into being...
...being in that house, I wonder...it's the kind of house I grew up in. But for me, this is the better choice. I mean, I don't think that they should dissolve Concord. My life is nothing like Beethoven's life, nothing like Verdi's, nothing like Mozart's, but rather similar to Bach's life. Bach spent the last (I think) 20 years of his life in this one church in Leipzig and he was sort of like composer in residence in that church. And his life was somewhat like my life, or my life was somewhat...