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Mostly Mozart Festival Has Diverse Crowds, New Programming

At recent Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performances, visibly diverse crowds took in programming new to the ensemble.

By Oussama Zahr

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Louis Langrée Wraps Up a Quietly Transformative Era of Conducting

With a new job, Langrée is reaching the end of undersung runs with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

By Joshua Barone

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Apocalypse Nowish: An Octavia Butler Opera May Be Prophetic

Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Their opera makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City.

By Salamishah Tillet

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Lincoln Center Revives Summer for the City, Hoping to Draw New Fans

The festival will include hip-hop, Korean arts, Mostly Mozart and a flock of 200 flamingo lawn ornaments.

By Javier C. Hernandez