Mozart music helps cops combat crime

The music by 18th century classical composer Mozart has helped police combat crime in a city of New Zealand, a media report said Monday.

According to newspaper The Press, the introduction of speakers playing Mozart and other classical music in a mall in Christchurch in June 2009 has led to a steep fall in petty crime, the mall's managers said.

Figures reveal the number of anti-social incidents attended by security guards came down from 77 a week in October 2008 to only two per week in October this year and the number of drug and alcohol-related incidents fell from 16 to zero.

The number of times the guards helped shopkeepers deal with troublesome customers also fell from 35 to zero, the report said.

'The music has certainly had an effect during the day. It has created an environment that is conducive to good behaviour,' a senior police officer said.

http://sify.com/news/mozart-music-helps-cops-combat-crime-news-international-klilOfggjee.html

Lost Vivaldi flute concerto found in Edinburgh archive

A lost flute concerto by the composer Vivaldi has been discovered at the National Archives of Scotland.

Il Gran Mogol, which belonged to a quartet of lost concertos, has been authenticated as the work of the 18th Century Italian composer.

Southampton University research fellow Andrew Woolley found the piece among the Marquesses of Lothian's family papers at the archives in Edinburgh.

It will receive its modern day premiere at Perth Concert Hall in January.

 

The piece was part of a quartet of lost Vivaldi concertos

 

The other pieces of the quartet - La Francia, La Spagna and L'Inghilterro - remain lost.

Il Gran Mogol is almost complete, only missing a part for the second violin.
But Mr Woolley has reconstructed it using the manuscript of another flute concerto by Vivaldi, which is kept in Turin and appears to be a reworking of Il Gran Mogol.

He said: "This piece was previously known only from a mention in the sale catalogue of an 18th Century Dutch bookseller.

"Discovering that it is actually in existence is unexpected and hugely exciting."

It is unclear exactly how the concerto was brought to Scotland, but it is believed to have belonged to the flute-playing nobleman Lord Robert Kerr, son of the third Marquess of Lothian.

It is thought he may have acquired it on a Grand Tour of Europe in the early 1700s.

Scottish Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop described the find as remarkable.
"With no evidence that the piece has ever been played, I welcome the news that its premiere will be in Scotland," she said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-11491307

Minuetto al Roverso

In Haydn's Symphony No. 47 the third movement is called the "Minuetto al Roverso" and that is the reason why this symphony is sometimes called "The Palindrome": the second part of the Minuet is the same as the first but backwards, and the Trio is also written in this way.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._47_%28Haydn%29

Israel doesn't need reconciliation with Wagner, says Holocaust survivor

Noah Klieger survived several concentration camps during the Holocaust

The glass harmonica

It looks strange, but how does it sound? <

"The harmonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood that is apt method for slow self-annihilation. If you are suffering from any nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica 

Constanze Mozart-Nissen, 1840

"Constanze Mozart told Nissen that just before the end Mozart asked her what [his physician] Dr. Closset had said. When she answered with a soothing lie, he said, 'It isn't true,' and he was very distressed: 'I shall die, now when I am able to take care of you and the children. Ah, now I will leave you unprovided for.' "

Maurice Ravel a la Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao

"Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!"

Maurice Ravel Deluarte

Maurice Ravel Deluarte in Ziburu with Basque-ball players

"I begin by considering an effect..."

Maurice Ravel

Robert Schumann in his youth, in Vienna

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist"

Robert Schumann