Mozartean

For a finale, they elevated the pedestrian "Happy Birthday" into a thing of Mozartean beauty, in honor of the Louis Armstrong Foundation's Phoebe Jacobs—a woman turning 93 deserves something special.

Summer Swing Dawns Will Friedwald 2011

Having joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra at 22, straight out of Juilliard, and having gone on to win the prestigious Naumburg Competition, Ms. Wincenc was "caught up in all the refinements of Mozartean Classicism, while keeping my foot in the modern door," thanks to the similar interests of St. Paul's music director, Dennis Russell Davies, who brought composers like Olivier Messiaen to work with the orchestra.

Rootin', Flutin' 40th Season Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

There followed the Sonata in A, D. 664, even sunnier, with a tinge of Mozartean freshness, though its sunny opening theme mellowed gradually by its return toward the end of the movement, aged into something slightly softer, slightly darker to set the stage for the more somber second movement.

Music review: Emanuel Ax at Strathmore Anne Midgette 2010

Though I'm not a big Beethoven fan, there are a few pieces that I love, and this gentle, Mozartean concerto is one of them.

Archive 2009-03-01 sfmike 2009

Though I'm not a big Beethoven fan, there are a few pieces that I love, and this gentle, Mozartean concerto is one of them.

Bible Camp at the San Francisco Symphony sfmike 2009

For those who want to know more about Richard Wilbur, here's a lovely article from the Harvard Magazine- the author, Craig Lambert, describes Wilbur as having a "Mozartean felicity with verse."

Archive 2009-02-01 Kiki 2009

For those who want to know more about Richard Wilbur, here's a lovely article from the Harvard Magazine- the author, Craig Lambert, describes Wilbur as having a "Mozartean felicity with verse."

Regarding Richard Wilbur Kiki 2009

Is Lestat himself admitting that after the Mozartean "Interview With the Vampire" (1976) it was hard to sit still for the Wagnerian "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) and "The Queen of the Damned" (1988)?

A 200-Year-Old Problem Drinker 2008

An eminent Mozartean who did some Wagner at Bayreuth is probably not going to catch flak for any political decision.

Archive 2007-06-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

An eminent Mozartean who did some Wagner at Bayreuth is probably not going to catch flak for any political decision.

Pardon me? Patrick J. Smith 2007