Road to Freedom

The Cost of Art III: How the Fusebox Festival liberated itself from charging admission

"...Fusebox shares costs with producing partners. Carlin cites the Mozart Requiem Undead that opened Fusebox 2014: The budget for..."

July 25, 2014 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

"It Was a Difficult Choice, But..."

The Austin Critics Table named its tops in the arts for 2014

"...Mozart Requiem Undead, Texas Choral Consort/Convergence/Golden Hornet Project..."

June 3, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

World on a String

Young violinists from across the globe flock to Austin for North America's first Menuhin Competition

"...one of Wieniawski's Etudes-Caprices (he wrote eight), either a Mozart Adagio or a Beethoven Romance, a new work by..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Free Rangin' Excitement

Announcing the lineup for Fusebox Festival's 10th edition

"...Monika Jakubiak (Warsaw); and the big opening event, the Mozart Requiem Undead, for which Austin's Golden Hornet Project –..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Food Events

"...› Turk Pipkin Book Signing Enjoy Mozart's incredible annual light show and get a copy of..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Food Column

Miró Quartet and Jorge Caballero

A toast to exceptional musicians with their namesake cocktails in hand

"...of a French 75 (albeit one mixed in Austria), Mozart, playing his String Quartet in E-Flat Major, a work..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...Rebecca Johnson, The Mozart Project..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

A tasteful remembrance of an Austin original

"...The fabulous annual holiday light and music extravaganza at Mozart's Coffee Roasters (3826 Lake Austin Blvd.) is bigger and..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Austin Chamber Music Center Performathon

Hundreds of chamber musicians fill Dell Hall with nine full hours of classical sounds

"...Brian Lewis, violin; Roger Myers, viola – "Allegro" from Mozart's Duo for Violin and Viola in G Major..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

Eat Local Week recap, Central Texas honors, and more delicious news

"...stop in for desserts, coffee, and hot chocolate at Mozart's Coffee Roasters (3825 Lake Austin Blvd., 477-2900) to appreciate..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

'Hat' Trick

The Austin Chamber Music Festival gets you as close to opera as can be

"...and all sorts of funky things. And back in Mozart's day and Rossini's day, it was the social entertainment..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Double Life

Splitting the difference between Peter Schickele and his alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach

"...Schickele or P.D.Q. Bach. There are a lot of Mozart divertimenti, for instance, that have passages – [singing] ya..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Food-o-File

Area hotels help fill your holiday season with gingerbread

"...on display through New Year's Day... The owners of Mozart's Coffee Roasters (3825 Lake Austin Blvd., 477-2900, www.mozartscoffee.com) invite..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

What's Wrong With Josh, I Loved 'The Reader'

"...told the story of the musical prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people I relayed this opinion to could not..."

Jan. 13, 2009 Postmarks

Water

Don't come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe. It's instead an encounter with "voodoo chemistry" that aims to show why we all should start imbibing "structurized water."

"...pretty images, as does the music of Bach and Mozart; heavy metal music warps water's crystalline shapes, as do..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Long Center: Who's playing

Austin's new performing-arts center releases the performance schedule for its first few months

"...Shakespeare Festival, Austin Chamber Music Center, Teatro Vivo, A. Mozart Fest, TexARTS, and Refraction Arts' Fuse Box Festival...."

Jan. 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Magic Flute

Twenty-first century tech doesn't serve Mozart's 18th century opera, but the human artists make magic

"...simple comic fable steeped in fantasy, the work is Mozart's ode to the imagination. For this production, UT's Butler..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Review by Michael Kellerman

Mr. Smarty Pants

Spatial-temporal reasoning, Hitler's favorite movies, and more

"..."The Mozart Effect" is the name attributed to psychologists' findings in..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Death Valley Nights

BÖC's Spectres reissue brings out the ghosts

"...he would rework things forever. He was not like Mozart. Mozart was like Donald: The ideas would just burst..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Golden Hornet Project

Since Mozart isn't writing any new chamber music, the Golden Hornet Project is picking up the slack with concerts of new works for small ensembles by local composers

"...The drag about all that great chamber music that Mozart wrote is that there isn't any more of it..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shostakovich 100 Schedule

"...finalist Roberto Plano on a program with works by Mozart and Dvorak. March 12, 7:30pm, at Congregation Agudas Achim,..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

This Chinese film presents an uncharacteristically romantic look at the Cultural Revolution.

"...claiming that his favorite sonata is a Party anthem: "Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao." Enter the village seamstress..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Applause! Applause!

Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005

"...Veritably Vienna, A. Mozart FestChoral Concert..."

May 27, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Za vashe zdorov'ye, Shostakovich!

Fifteen local arts organizations work together to celebrate Shostakovich's 100th birthday

"...opera, dance, and films, from the likes of A. Mozart Fest, Austin Chamber Music Center, Austin Children's Choir, Austin..."

March 18, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Boulez Project

In concept, the Boulez Project was somewhat provocative, but in performance, it was carelessly assembled

"...enough. "Bernstein was playing just old favorites, Beethoven and Mozart, what people wanted to hear. I think Boulez was..."

March 4, 2005 Arts Review by Jerry Young

Attention to Sound

John Cage's approach to music has shaped how Michelle Schumann listens to and plays it

"...establishment and rarely welcomed to share musical programs with Mozart, Brahms, or even the acknowledged 20th-century masters, but the..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Arts Feature by Jerry Young

Stalin's Favorite Pianist

"...the radio one day, Stalin heard Yudina's performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23. The next night he called..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Those Magic Moments

Composer, classicist Stephen Barber's encoding and imprinting

"...You wake up at his house and he's playing Mozart. And it's ridiculous to watch him work. There's so..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

A Tuna Almanac: Facts About the Shows and Their Creators

Facts about the Tuna shows and their creators, and a guide to the characters in the plays.

"...a new opera, Ocheata's Wedding, commissioned by the OK Mozart International Music Festival...."

April 12, 2002 Arts Feature

Food-o-file

Upcoming culinary events in Austin.

"...Cafe Mundi, Dolce Vita, the Culinary Academy of Austin, Mozart's, Prairie Rock Catering, Wakichef, Zoot, and more! Come join..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

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