One reliable sign of spring is the annual programming of preview concerts for the Midsummer Mozart Festival, whose Music Director is George Cleve, in the Noontime Concerts™ (“San Francisco’s Musical Lunch Break”) series at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral. Every summer Cleve prepares two programs consisting entirely of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in performance that reliably and vividly emphasize the significance of Mozart’s place in music history. The first of the preview programs for the 2013 season was presented today; and, if Mozart’s significance in history has already been established, then today’s single selection plays a significant role in Mozart’s personal history of development…
Examiner Review of Midsummer Mozart — 2013 May 14