By DANIEL J. WAKIN [NY Times, 5 January 2006]

You have been specializing in Mozart for 40 years. It is the 250th-anniversary year of his birth. Your festival will bob in an ocean of Wolfgang, Wolfgang, Wolfgang concerts around the world. What to do?

The Mostly Mozart Festival's solution is to sink its tent poles into the present. This Lincoln Center festival, announcing its 2006 program yesterday, said it had commissioned four new works, three of them "inspired" by Mozart, as the foundation of the summer season.