Sure, Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday has been getting lots of press here in the city that strives to keep that American Revolution spirit alive. Well, there is another famous birthday coming up next week and a local museum has decided to dedicate a whole day to him. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is turning 250 years old on January 27th and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be celebrating it all day long on Sunday, January 29 with their “Mozart Marathon.” There will be three concerts (10a.m., 1p.m., and 4p.m.); each will feature a violin sonata, a string quartet and an orchestral work. Why all three you ask? Because they want to showcase what a composer he was, that’s why. (Let’s just say that by the ripe old age of 20, Mozart had already composed 30 symphonies and 9 operas. When Bostonist was 20, we were lucky to have completed a college term paper.)
His big 2-5-0 is being celebrated worldwide this year and Boston is commemorating it on his actual birthday weekend. So, why not get a little cultured and take in some Mozart on a lazy Sunday afternoon? (It's not like you'll be gearing up for some big game that week.) Tickets are $20 for adults ($10 for college students) and they include admission to the rest of the ISGM.
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Lazy Sunday? I'm gonna call up Parn. Maybe get me some cupcakes or maybe some pibb and red vines (crazy delicious) and make it to ISGM for 'deus.
Or, to paraphrase Tom Lehrer (also a Bostonist), it is daunting to think that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for 23 years.