You said I got a '90's Volvo and their whole discography

[sovay]

Okay, on an unfamiliar antibiotic and the aftershock of the concert and next to zero sleep it appears that I do not have the mental wherewithal to write any further about movies today, so please enjoy this thoroughly charming article: "Antonio Salieri's Revenge." Shaffer's Salieri has been important to me for twenty years, but I have in fact heard and enjoyed the music of the real, neither murderous nor mediocre one, and I don't see the point of resisting this description: "Salieri is one of history's all-time losers—a bystander run over by a Mack truck of malicious gossip."

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[kore]

Carl Czerny, the composer of piano exercises that have tortured generations of students

I don't always like Alex Ross but that got an actual loud "HAH!" out of me.

When my mother did her Elderhostel/community college Great Composers lectures, when she got to Mozart she always spent the first five minutes debunking Amadeus. She loved the movie, tho!

[sovay]

When my mother did her Elderhostel/community college Great Composers lectures, when she got to Mozart she always spent the first five minutes debunking Amadeus. She loved the movie, tho!

I understand that! I didn't love the movie, but I loved the play. It's an incredibly powerful and resonant channel for thinking about creativity and envy and what it means to be good enough. It just happens to have real people's names stuck on it, which is awkward. (See also, I suspect, The Royal Hunt of the Sun.)

[kore]

It's an incredibly powerful and resonant channel for thinking about creativity and envy and what it means to be good enough. It just happens to have real people's names stuck on it, which is awkward

YES and also YES. It's so powerful. But it's so different from the actual people....