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Article: Mastering Mozart: NOTES FROM VIENNA
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- March 1, 2004
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"What's a fugue?"
"How is THE MAGIC FLUTE a reflection of Enlightenment thinking?"
"Why were the Viennese so afraid of a Turkish invasion throughout the eighteenth century?"
"Once again, what's the difference between the Habsburg and the Holy Roman empires?"
"How can I teach the QUEEN OF THE NIGHT's rage aria to my tenth-grade English class?"
Alan Kimbrough and I wrestled with questions like these each day for a month with thirty of the nation's most gifted teachers. The classroom sessions were part of a four-week institute in Vienna, "Mozart's German Operas in Context," sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The participating K-12 teachers, chosen from throughout the ...