"Concerts to honor composer
January 21, 2006
Local cultural institutions are joining the celebration of composer Wolfgang Ama-deus Mozart's 250th birthday.
The National Symphony Orchestra will give three concert performances of Mozart's opera 'The Abduction From the Seraglio' beginning Thursday, the eve of the composer's birthday. His music will be in a dozen of the symphony's vocal, chamber-music and orchestral concerts through June 17.
On Jan. 19, the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery of Art began the three-month celebration of 'Mozart on the Mall' with a piano recital including works influenced by Turkish music. The gallery is showing an exhibit of silk garments from Turkey's Ottoman empire. "
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