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With its cool and uncompromising minimalism, the new Mavida Balance Hotel & Spa mavida.at - located 98 km from Salzburg in the lakeside hamlet of Zell am See - has set out to prove that there's more to Austria's high-altitude resorts than knotty wood paneling and endless chintz. "Having traveled the world, I wanted to create something that would eventually bring it back here to me," says proprietor and native son Herbert Bren of his $11.4 million brainchild. A collaboration between Munich-based architects Niki Szilagyi and Evi Märklstetter, the Mavida [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...Mozart 250th Anniversary Celebration” Friday, Feb. 24 at 8:00 P.M. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222, $8 regular / $6 students. On a quiet street in Salzburg there stands an unassuming apartment building painted sunshine yellow. Out front, hordes of tourists from all corners of the earth eat ice cream, snap photos, and wander about. The scene is puzzling at first, until one notices the enormous letters declaring Mozarts Geburtshaus (“Mozart’s Birthplace”) in sparkling gold. On January 27, 1756, Mozart—whom his father modestly...
...widespread credence thanks to the hit movie Amadeus, depicts him as the victim of his jealous court rival Antonio Salieri. Fervent admirers have argued that he was divinely inspired, but some modern psychologists detect an infantile-regressive personality. And if he were alive today, says Herbert Brugger of the Salzburg tourism office, he would be "a pop star - somewhere between Prince, Michael Jackson and Robbie Williams." There's little new about such typecasting. But over the past decade, Mozart has increasingly been placed in a role that is perhaps the most controversial of all: as healer of mind and body...
...spewing out gold coins. The message in the headline: Mozart has been "brutally marketed for 200 years." And this year, during the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the accompanying article concluded, "the threat of total marketing looms." Nowhere is that commercial exploitation more evident than in Salzburg, the quaint Austrian city where Mozart was born, which hopes to cash in on the anniversary with an incongruous mix of kitsch and high culture. "Salzburg without Mozart is hardly imaginable. Without Mozart, I really couldn't say how this city would be," says Heinz Schaden, Salzburg's mayor...
...That's one of the issues of new music," she says. "What are you listening for? It could be about the way the clarinet gives a sound to the cello. Or maybe rhythm is more important. Or texture." Lim's sonic world has that in abundance. For Austria's Salzburg Festival in August, Lim hopes to put to song the Aboriginal concept of kalyuyuru, "which is like water shimmering as it falls," she explains. Completing the metaphor, husband Daryl Buckley likens Lim's musical career to "a bright flowing river." Runs deep...