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...Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen said in a statement...
...9/11; the passengers of Flight 93 answered it in a diametrically opposed, compassionate and extraordinarily caring manner. Both answers need to be analyzed and discussed and the results taught to every one of our youngsters. That is the only way we will eventually create a better world. Michel Mortier Zug, Switzerland...
...9/11. The passengers of Flight 93 answered it in a diametrically opposed, compassionate and extraordinarily caring manner. Both answers need to be analyzed and discussed and the results taught to every one of our youngsters. That is the only way we will eventually create a better world. Michel Mortier Zug, Switzerland U.S. foreign policy needs a greater dose of realism. It should be more in tune with the world community rather than taking an armchair view and telling other nations to conform to the U.S. perspective. Nirmal Kuamar Mishra Patna, India Words Unspoken In "What Bush should have said" [Sept...
...should Mozart's music be the focal point of this debate, rather than other classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven or Chopin? Many sounds, from Hindu chanting to the noise of the surf breaking on a shore, are believed to be therapeutic. As for classical music, Gérard Mortier, the director of the Paris opera, is one of many who reckons that Mozart isn't the only composer who soothes. "You find the most appropriate music for the pathology," Mortier says. "For some people it might be [Johann Sebastian Bach's] 'Goldberg' Variations. For others it might...
...Mozart home with them." Not all the products being touted are conventional ones. One dairy firm, Alpenmilch Salzburg, is marketing a special Mozart-year yogurt-and-milk drink flavored with marzipan, chocolate and nougat cream, the same ingredients as Mozart Kugel candy. Not everyone approves. Gérard Mortier, the current director of the Paris Opera who headed the Salzburg festival for a decade in the 1990s, says he worries that the Mozart anniversary year "won't yield much. To the contrary, I fear it might turn Mozart into an event. Instead of really delving into Mozart's depth...