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Sellars, 37, is the former wunderkind director who brought composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman together for Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991). He is known for his unconventional settings of operas and plays: he set Mozart's Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem, and only last year he moved The Merchant of Venice to Venice, California, just down the beach from Malibu. Always a skillful director of actors and stage movement, Sellars has often seemed capricious in his grand recontextualizations. But in this case, he has created a modern setting that is ingeniously...
...extraordinary new study, "Mozart: A Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come...
...violist Walter Trampler's association with Yoo began when he judged Yoo at an international violin competition. Since then, the two have collaborated several times, including a performance of Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante" with the Bach Society Orchestra...
...distributing this melange to consumers. Today some 85% of U.S. homes with television sets also have VCRs, generating nearly $10 billion in annual videotape rentals in a market that did not exist 20 years ago. The compact disc rejuvenated the recorded-music industry, winning new listeners for both Mozart and Jimi Hendrix, just as the CD-ROM promises to turn home computers into powerful outlets for entertainment...
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