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."

Comments

[wpadmirer]

I saw AMADEUS on Broadway with Frank Langella playing Sallieri. It's a magnificent play. Too bad it's based on such a lie.

[rachelmanija]

I love Amadeus but the real Salieri sounds great. The bit about him sadly slinking away after eavesdropping until he heard someone say something bad about his play was so relatable.

[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!

[a_reasonable_man]

I saw Amadeus in London in 1981, with Frank Finlay as Salieri. I still remember the way he said "sweetmeats from my native Italy."

[nineweaving]

Poor old Salieri. He coulda been a runner-up.

Nine