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The big one.(Salzburg Festival)
Salzburg, Austria WELL, this is the big one, Elizabeth (as Fred Sanford used to say). (Note to the very young or unschooled: He was a TV-sitcom character.) For many years, this city has been preparing for 2006, the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. And Salzburg, of course, is the little guy's hometown.
The city gained other worldwide fame last century, when Rodgers & Hammer-stein penned The Sound of Music. (It is set here, as you know.) But Mozart is unquestionably the main deal. His bust greets you at the airport, which is, in fact, called the W. A. Mozart Airport. (I don't think his descendants get royalties.) And Mozart never stops looking at you, wherever ...
- Mozart et al.(Salzburg Festival, music)
- Magazine article from: National Review Nordlinger, Jay September 13, 2004 700+ words
...Mozarteum holds a "Mozart Week." Truth is, every week's a Mozart week--and not...Friends of the Salzburg Festival offers a series...many say. The Salzburg Festival, as usual, is filled with Mozart, and given prominent...
- High art & low taxes.(MUSIC)(interviews of Salzburg Festival...
- Magazine article from: National Review Nordlinger, Jay September 10, 2007 700+ words
...Austria LAST year, the Salzburg Festival staged the mother of all Mozart blowouts: It was his...may ask, "What is the Salzburg Festival?" and you are perfectly...publicists here says, "The Salzburg Festival is to classical music...
- Salzburg High.(Salzburg Festival)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country GUREWITSCH, MATTHEW April 1, 2000 700+ words
...filing past the house where Mozart was born on Getreidegasse...tours have outstripped Mozart as the region's most profitable attraction--but the Salzburg Festival. For the happy few with...habit, even a cult. "The Salzburg Festival is high-octane," says...
- Arts Focus: Salzburg Festival wide of the Marx; An insider's guide to the local...
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) August 27, 2001 700+ words
...at the wonderful Salzburg Festival which ends this week...leave in droves. Two Mozart operas, the delightfully...programme of the first Salzburg Festival in 1926. Declan...should be at the Salzburg Festival which runs till August...
- Amid upheavals, a steady Salzburg Festival; Amid upheaval, a steady festival ;...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune George Loomis August 19, 2009 700+ words
...Amid upheavals, a steady Salzburg Festival; Amid upheaval, a steady...carico d'amore." As the Salzburg Festival began last month, it was...shaping up much like any other Salzburg Festival. Quality is typically measured...installment of his trilogy of Mozart-Da Ponte operas, is ...
- A spirit of place. (rethinking the Salzburg festival)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 3, 1990 700+ words
...growing financial stringency, the Salzburg Festival is having another go. It has...festival in Salzburg, but a Salzburg festival, a celebration of the city as...main emphasis will still be on Mozart ("the theatricality of Salzburg...
- Salzburg Festival
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Salzburg Festival. Fest. held annually in Austrian town where Mozart was born. Mus. coll. known...1880. In 1877, first of 8 Mozart fests. up to 1910 was held...Walter. Repertory mainly Mozart and Strauss, with Beethoven...
- What to wear for Salzburg.(1999 Salzburg Festival)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 4, 1999 700+ words
...equipping oneself for the Salzburg festival is becoming a problem. In...For instance, few monied Mozart-lovers used to the town...offerings. Besides, didn't Mozart and his actor-director chum...What was good enough for Mozart, Mr Mortier implies, ought...