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Article: MAGNIFICENT Mozart Let's party like it's 1756 (to commemorate the birth of a musical genius)
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- January 22, 2006
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In classical music, 2006 has been ordained the year of Mozart.
Celebrations of the composer's 250th birthday have begun here and
around the country and will continue far past Mozart's Friday
birthday.
What accounts for the enduring appeal of an 18th-century Austrian
who died in relative poverty at age 35?
To Colorado Springs Chorale conductor Donald Jenkins, Mozart's
appeal is as spiritual as it is musical.
"He's like Shakespeare," said Jenkins. "He has the range and
depth, and the music is so human."
Opera Theatre of the Rockies producer Martile Rowland concurred,
and adds an opera singer's perspective: "It's so dadgum difficult. I
never went into a rehearsal for a Mozart opera where I ...