Posts: Mozart Serenity

Mozart Movie Myths

December 4, 2022

Mozart’s true life story needs no Hollywood-style embellishments, says Music Director Donato Cabrera. Tom Hulce as Wolgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1984 hit movie “Amadeus”. By California Symphony Music Director Donato Cabrera. A murderously jealous rival. A mysterious commission from a “gray messenger.” Rumors of poisoning… If the circumstances of Mozart’s death at 35 read like…

2017-18 Season, A Tango with Mozart, Composer, Donato Cabrera, Mozart, Mozart Serenity

Mozart Interrupted

March 8, 2018

What additional treasures might exist had Mozart survived beyond 35? And what iconic works *wouldn’t* we have, if other great composers had died young like him? When I am… completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and…

Haydn, Mozart, Mozart and his Mentor, Mozart Serenity