DescriptionIn this audio tour, we'll walk the streets of Salzburg where Mozart roamed; see where he was born and where his family lived; stand where Julie Andrews and the von Trapp gang sang "Do-Re-Mi"; wander the lovely and soothing cemetery built into the mountain…
DescriptionIn this audio tour through Vienna, hear about cannonballs, still embedded in the Cathedral Spire, that were fired by Turks 500 years ago; listen to a clock designed in the fantastic Viennese Art Nouveau Style; hear why the Waltz was considered naughty in…
DescriptionBy the time Mozart turned 20 he was already one of the most skilled composers of his day. His output included not only symphonies and concertos but piano pieces, serenades, arias, operas, and smaller species of musical theater, songs, and church music. Sy…
DescriptionWhen the enigmatic Anastasia shows up in the halls of Hamilton High, the narrator finds his life changes greatly. She opens his mind to Burroughs, Baudelaire, Chet Baker, and Mozart. She reveals a world of magic tricks, ghost stories, and affectionate mind games. Together the couple probe through enchanted woods, the Internet, and everything in between, until one winter evening when Anastasia disappears, leaving only a dress on a frozen pond and a string of unanswered questions. Suddenly alone, the narrator is hit with the weight of life's less playful mysteries, possible signs from the supernatural, and the mystery of what actually happened to his missing love.
DescriptionMozart's wife aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-laws loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than 40 after his death, remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child to wife to hard-headed widow, Konstanze paid her husband's debts, provided for their children, and relentlessly marketed and mythologized her brilliant husband. Mozart's letters attest to his affection for Konstanze as well as to their powerful sexual bond. Yet the question remains: why did she never mark his grave?
