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...Mozart year" is over. And with it, the excesses that first defined the short-lived Austrian composer and then submerged his memory in a torrent of commercial hype and cocktail-party chatter...
...Complete Mozart Edition, an unprecedented (and somewhat futile) recording project undertaken by Phillips to present every note the composer penned (even as musicologists discover new ones, each less significant than the previous), still clutters the shelves. Similar ventures by other recording companies add to the heap of re-releases (at last count, the Sony classical catalogue included no less than three different box sets of Mozart re-issues). As the year's hangover subsides, a disquieting question seems inescapable" can we still take Mozart's music seriously...
...sing about such nonbucolic topics as older women sleeping with younger men. Even the down-home Reba McEntire, who spent her youth on her father's ranch and on the rodeo circuit, went on to college, where she studied classical violin and piano and "analyzed Mozart every which...
Jessica L. McBee '92, former president of the Mozart Society Orchestra, said her group could also use assistance from the new fund in moving from Paine to Sanders as a regular performance site...
...start to listen to things other than the "warhorses" of the classical repertoire, you'll find things that you recognize: folk tunes in Dvorak, jazz rhythms in Ravel, and humor in Mozart's operas (try the "Magic Flute"). In any case, you've already mastered the basics if you can recognize a melody and move to a rhythm...