Are “symphonies” just containers into which composers pour their orchestral inspirations? Thursday evening's Cleveland ...
The Merolini do Mozart: We just love to let it roll off our tongue in the original German: Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" (aka "The Magic Flute"), the ebullient opera featuring an abducted beauty, a ...
In this digital day and age, witnessing the grandeur of the symphony is an often forgotten privilege. A few weeks ago, I was treated to the exquisite repertoire of the Princeton University Orchestra ...
Matthew Bengtson believes the best way to perform music written by Mozart is on the instrument the classical composer, who lived in the mid-1700s, played. To that end, Bengtson will bring his 1785 ...
Thomas Crawford led the American Classical Orchestra in an all-Mozart program Tuesday night at Alice Tully Hall. The American Classical Orchestra is one of New York City’s smaller orchestras, yet with ...
To start up the new year, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra turned to something old — music by Mozart. A program devoted solely to that composer can be counted on to draw a crowd, as it did Friday at ...
Onstage Anne-Sophie Mutter is the picture of cool virtuosity, in command even when she is tearing into a tough concerto. Offstage, the German-born violinist is a virtuoso in another realm just as deep ...
Ah, something I can talk about intelligently, as a former grad student in AI and as a well-educated Mozart hound. I'm familiar with Cope and with Emmy, and a little bit with Hofstadter as well, from ...
The charming thing about Ami Porat’s Mozart Classical Orchestra is its focus and simplicity. This is an ensemble that has a mission and performs it without frills or marketing tricks. At the Irvine ...