Mostly Mozart Festival
July 29–August 23, 2008

Come to this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the annual celebration of its namesake and his enduring music. Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, under the baton of Louis Langrée, will continue to provide the heartbeat for programs deeply rooted in tradition.

This season, Mostly Mozart welcomes composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho, whose stunning oratorio La Passion de Simone will receive its U.S. premiere.

The Festival will also explore music and art from diverse cultural traditions through such provocative works as Samoan-born theater-artist and choreographer Lemi Ponifasio’s magnificent Requiem, and Australian artist Lynette Wallworth’s installations that connect the viewer with the natural and virtual world through touch and technology.

The season will also mark the auspicious debuts of a new, ascendant generation of conductors, including twenty-something French phenom Lionel Bringuier and British sensation Edward Gardner. These firsts will be complemented by the returns of such revered artists as the Emerson String Quartet, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson.

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