Mozart

I play music as I pass through my day. Sometimes it’s harsh, and sometimes easy-breezy, hooray. Each day it’s a choice to: Curate the chords Making majors from the minors. Nurture each note and Relaxing on the rests. Dive into dissonance Forcing fortes and frowns. Invite Pianissimos seeking peace, Soft…

It’s hard to think about anything other than politics these days, but sometimes it helps to think about something completely innocuous. For what it’s worth, I’m going to talk about Mozart operas. There are reasons to do that. First of all, the four big Mozart operas (Marriage of Figaro, Don…

I have been finding my way back to classical music recently and was pretty shocked to learn that just four classical composers (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky) comprise almost all the music played by modern orchestras. I then realized that I did not know a single female composer. …

Who hasn’t heard and seen the ‘The Sound of Music?’ From Salzburg you can take a wonderful tour of the locations used in the movie The Sound of Music, which includes the historical and architectural landmarks of the baroque city of Salzburg. …

This is the plain text version. For the Multimedia Video Book, click this: Gerard Jones Here’s the annotated multimedia video book of Ginny Good…and the Vimeo videos that go with it. Ginny Good is easily…vimeo.com If you want to see the Supplemental Videos, and where they belong in the text, scroll down on Medium to the next set of 35 chapters. Thanks. G. Elliot’s parents lived in a custom-built turquoise and white…

The Libertine Punished, or Don Giovanni is a dark comedic opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that satirises conservative social conventions while criticising excessive violence that entailed the Enlightenment. On surface, it adopts the myth of Don Juan into operatic form, in which the protagonist is dragged into Hell for his…

Mozart, born in 1756, in Salzburg, Austria began his musical education as a toddler, under the guidance of his father Leopold. He excelled and innovated -writing symphonies, concertos, chamber music or operas. As a young man, Bethoven even traveled to Vienna in the hopes of studying with him. As a…

Yo. The very word defies classical music. But to make classical European music — an ancient and very serious art form — cool? That’s a tall task indeed. I will attempt to do this. And I will fail. But that’s okay. Classical music from the seventeenth century to around the…