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[MUSIC REVIEW] Mozart weekend at Tanglewood
7.25.06
BSO marks Mozart's 250th with style
By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff
LENOX -- It is generally agreed that if you can sing Mozart properly, you can sing just about everything else ever written for the trained voice; the opposite is not true.
The same observation is valid of orchestras: If an orchestra has the nimbleness of finger, breath, ear, and mind to play Mozart accurately, luminously, and with feeling, it can deliver superior Wagner, Strauss, Mahler, and Boulez; the opposite is not the case.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrated Mozart's 250th birthday last weekend not just with ``Don Giovanni" but also with two other all-Mozart programs led by James Levine. There is no way the orchestra could've done this as well two years ago. Mozart was not a priority during the tenure of the previous music director, Seiji Ozawa. There have been only a handful of personnel changes, but today's BSO is not the same orchestra.
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