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Article: Delfs, Massey beg to differ on Mozart; One's a fan, one's a little skeptical as MSO celebrates composer's 250th

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October 22, 2006
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Mozart turns 250 this year, and everyone's celebrating, including the Milwaukee Symphony.

The orchestra and numerous guests will play a four-program, six- concert Mozart Festival over two weekends, starting Friday. Music director Andreas Delfs will conduct four of the concerts. Former resident conductor and current frequent guest Andrew Massey will preside over two.

Mozart, after a childhood of being paraded around Europe as one of music's first prodigies by an ambitious father, grew up amid a shift in Western art music. The Industrial Revolution was dawning, the middle class was beginning to grow, and music was starting to

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