Mostly Mozart

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The Mostly Mozart Festival is a summer series of concerts held at Lincoln Center in New York City. Currently, the artistic director is Jane Moss while the music director is Louis Langrée. In 2006 it is celebrating its 40th anniverary and the 250th anniversary of its namesake Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth. As it has done for many years, it is performing many of "Mozart's works and also a variety of musical works created after his death that were inspired and influenced by his genius".^[1]

Mostly Mozart 2006 is full of commissions, American and world premieres, and new productions, all of which affirm the vitality of Mozart in the creative life of our own time. The world premiere of a new violin concerto by the acclaimed Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, a new production of Mozart's opera Zaide staged by the ever-provocative stage director Peter Sellars. The world premiere of Mark Morris' exploration of Mozart's love of the piano, Mozart Dances, were certainly among the highlights of this summer's festival

[edit] History

On August 1, 1966, Midsummer Serenades - A Mozart Festival began. This program, the first indoor music festival in the United States, (made possible by Lincoln Center's new, air-conditioned halls), would eventually turn into what is today the Mostly Mozart Festival. On January 27, 1991, The Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln Center openeed with concerts held at Avery Fisher Hall and the Metropolitan Opera House. It was the world's largest and most comprehensive tribute to the life and works of Mozart.^[2]

[edit] Current

on August 24th, 2006, The Emerson String Quartet was joined by Leon Fleicher, Timothy Cobb and Richard O'Neill in the performance of the 12th piano concerto.