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Salzburg's Mozart Distillerie Refines "Mozart Chocolate Cream" for 60th Anniversary

Do you like your Mozart sweet and intoxicating? Here you are...just don't drive afterwards! So, the Mozart Distillery in Salzburg (where else?), turning 60-years-old, is marking its big birthday with a new liqueur called, simply, "Mozart Chocolate Cream.
  • Classical Crossover: Bad Move...or Step Forward?

    Classical music has its share of crossover artists, but is this really advancing the art form? Rock musicians who write operas aren't the only famous artists crossing musical boundaries these days--witness Renée Fleming's 2010 album Dark Hope, featuring the singer in indie hits from bands like Arcade Fire, Band of Horses and Death Cab for Cutie.
  • Classicalite’s Five Best: Rock Musicians with Classical Chops

    Classicalite's list of the five best rock musicians who also compose classical music. eighth blackbird's recent Chicago performance of music by Glenn Kotche, classical composer by day/Wilco drummer by night, got us to thinking about rock musicians who moonlight as composers.