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Skriven 2014-12-02 21:07:02 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 20000 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 RH> And who knows what more he would have produced, or of what quality,
 RH> had he not died so young.

 ML> Mozart lived to the ripe old age of 35. I don't know,
 ML> if he'd lived to Beethoven's age (57) or Haydn's (77),
 ML> would music as we know it be different? Or would he have
 ML> just continued on his merry way building increasing
 ML> mumbers of nachtmusiken and divertimenti and not being
 ML> of any more influence than he had earned in real life.
 ML> Or might he have burned out the way Rossini did. One
 ML> can speculate forever, but I'd guess that his lack of
 ML> introspection would have pushed him in the merry way
 ML> direction, and instead of 41 symphonies some of which
 ML> are really great, others merely nice, he might have
 ML> produced 82 symphonies, some of which would be really
 ML> great, others merely nice.

Interesting to speculate but unfortunately, we will never know what
might have happened. If his portayal in "Amadeus" was even half way to
what he was really like, I suspect he would have flamed out in a
relatively short time.

 RH> IOW, you had to have a very good memory to know what to play over and
 RH> over again, once you started with a new piece.
 ML> A good memory or a good teacher or a strong tradition.
 RH> IWO, I'd have not done so well.

 ML> Eh, not everyone has to be good at everything.

True, and I'd rather sit down at a sewing machine to (or do by hand) to
create something than do it musically for a career.

 RH> OTOH, the 1712 Overture was one of the pieces that got our girls into
 RH> classical music. Between PDQ Bach and Spike Jones, they appreciated
 RH> classical without being bored by bombastic pieces.

 ML> Funny thing is that people really like the bombastic pieces;
 ML> they are our bread and butter. From 1812 through the grand
 ML> symphonies to Wagner's Ring, it's the big tunes (as Annie
 ML> calls them) that bring out the audiences and the bucks.

That is interesting; I'd not realised it.


 ML> Home Made Mozart Kugeln
 RH> Just give me the chocolate, I'd rather not have the nuts. (G)

 ML> I just finished a bar of Ghirardelli hazelnut dark chocolate
 ML> and was just thinking how tasty it was, except for the few
 ML> rancid bits.

IOW, leave out the nuts and you would have been happy also?

 ML> One could I suppose omit all the nuts in the following, but
 ML> the point would be completely different.

 ML> MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

 ML>       Title: Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk
 ML>  Categories: Ice cream, Chocolate, Desserts, Nuts
 ML>       Yield: 1 servings

 ML>     1/4 c  White chocolate; chop coarse
 ML>     1/4 c  Semisweet chocoate; chop
 ML>     1/4 c  Pecan halves; chopped
 ML>     1/4 c  Walnuts; chop coarse
 ML>     1/4 c  Chocolate covered almonds;
 ML>            - cut in half
 ML>       4 oz Unsweetened chocolate
 ML>       1 c  Milk
 ML>       2 lg Eggs
 ML>       1 c  Sugar
 ML>       1 c  Heavy or whipping cream
 ML>       1 ts Vanilla extract
 ML>       1 pn Salt

I'd leave out both the nuts and the white "chocolate" but then too, I'm
not a NY City musician. (G)









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Catch you later,
Ruth
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... I am NOT burned out - just singed a little!

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