From Leopold Mozart’s teaching and promotion of his son’s early career to the later compositions of Franz Xaver Mozart, the program traces the musical lineage surrounding one of history’s most celebrated composers.
It was, in its way, a precursor of the Civil War. The intensity of the fight for one side to preserve its wealth, power and way of life cannot be overstated.
A trip to Chrystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, reminds our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala about the importance of good architecture, structure, and landscape design, especially in the dead of winter.
He first worked as the coordinator of English, and then as curriculum and testing director, for Pittsfield Public Schools. He then returned to the classroom at Lenox Memorial High School.
Here’s the thing: we have always been prejudiced. What we are prejudiced against does change, but man’s disapproval of man (and equally woman) is omnipresent. The church has always been the arbiter, and the consequences of disapproval have been more severe than being denied a slice with pepperoni.
