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...idea that infants can start acquiring an education has tempted ambitious parents for centuries. At the age of three, John Stuart Mill learned Greek, and Mozart was playing the harpsichord. Both were taught by their hard-driving fathers. Today, New York City's fashionable nursery schools not only interview two year olds (and charge their anxious parents $1,200 a year for two mornings of schooling a week), but they also report applications outrunning openings by as much...
Clark and his wife Joan enjoy Washington's social whirl, but often prefer evenings of classical music, especially Mozart, at the Kennedy Center. They live in a small apartment in Foggy Bottom that Bill Clark finds confining because there is no open air for his beloved barbecue grill. The apartment is modestly furnished, dominated by a contemporary wall tapestry of St. Francis of Assisi and pictures of their five children, ages 20 to 27. The couple are devout Roman Catholics who attend church regularly and prefer Latin Mass...
...came of age blowing its mind and ended up blow-drying its hair. Trivializing disturbs him: "The rational Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness embarked upon in the American Revolution translates into the flaky euphoria of the late 20th century"; Hugh Hefner is a Don Giovanni as written by Mantovani, not Mozart; popular Astronomer Carl Sagan's Cosmos is "a splendid picture book" but a work of "vulgar scientism" that ignores thousands of years of Western religious thought that laid the groundwork for modern science...
...most ambitious new production, George Balanchine's Symphonie Concertante (1947). This work has not been performed for 30 years, and survived only because it happened to have been transcribed in Labanotation (a system of symbols for preserving choreography). Symphonie Concertante is a reclaimed treasure. Set to Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for violin, viola and orchestra, it casts two ballerinas as the solo instruments, the brilliant Gregory as the violin, the mellower Van Hamel as the viola and surrounds them with a corps tracing patterns and recombining in gentle, eloquent classical phrases. Designer Theoni V. Aldredge...
Hamill, 31, is trying to relieve his Star Wars frustrations on the stage. He has been playing the part of Mozart in Amadeus for 5½ months, first on tour and now on Broadway. Like all the other actors, Hamill is devoted to Lucas, but he admits that "these movies didn't give me much pride in my craft. I had to act onstage to get that. Special-effects movies are hard on actors. You find yourself giving an impassioned speech to a big lobster in a flight suit. Only later do you see how silly it looks...