Anarky
01-28-2006, 11:53 AM
Yesterday, the famous composer and rebel of his time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, would have been 250 years old. To be honest, I'm a bit shocked, that we have threads dealing with Hot Dogs and not a single one dealing with one of the greatest composers of all time. I admit, he's not one of my favourites, but he still made some great music. Plus he was considered to be a musical genius.
I'm sure everyone knows one piece of his, and be it because of my thread where a scanner plays "Eine kleine Nachtmusik". So I thought we could need a thread dealing with classical music and now here it is. I waited until today to open this thread, because I wanted to include a newspaper-article dealing with the anniversary, and because newspapers are usually one day behind... you get the point. I know that this one article was around, because my mom was interviewed for it. And it is very interesting to hear what people think of the big fuzz made about this day. Of course, I translated this article. :D
"Today, he'd be a punk"
Hype around Mozart's anniversary: What do the people on the street think?
Some only know the rum truffles with marzipan known as "Mozartkugeln" others are upset about the commercial events with Mozart-themes: What our city's inhabitants think of the anniversary.
"Music, Fashion, Hair" are the first things that come to the mind of a woman. But she suspects that some of the famous white wigs were lice- and ratinfested. She says, she likes the light, hopping sound of Mozart's music. "Aside from the music, he never had control of anything. He didn't get along with money and family, he wasn't accepte. I think Mozart was a sociopath, maybe a bit like Robbie Williams is today. Today, says the woman with the short black hair and the big handbag, Mozart would probably be a punk. "One of those who get thrown of the station compound by the police.
"A mad man"
Ricardo Morga is sitting in a café, drinking an Espresso. "Mozart was almost like a God: A mad man, who died young and poor" says the computer technician and hobby-guitarist. When he listens to a concert of the famous composer, he's stunned. He's fascinated by the miraculous merging of sound and the coordination of the instrments. "Mozart was an inventor, who took music to a new level with his experiments"
Spared from Mozart
At the Bärenplatz [famous place in our city - Anarky], Manuela Graf is waiting for a friend to arrive. This morning, she heard a short report on Mozart on the radio, the young woman says. But all she can remember from the top of her head is "Rock me, Amadeus" by Falco. "Falco was cool" but she was spared from Mozart in school. All she knows is that he was supposed to be short and blonde and that the next "Wetten, dass...?" [famous TV-show over here- Anarky] was broadcasted from Salzburg because of the anniversary.
At a cell phone store, salesman Guido Gätzi thinks of the phone of his wife. The ringtone sounds just like a tune by Mozart. And he owns a vinyl-album of one of his concerts, which is tucked away in thin, brown paper. But he himself prefers pop-music, Abba for example.
Marketing shock
One might notice that nobody seems to care about the 250-year anniversary and showed no interest in the Mozart-themed events these days. Quite the opposite, these events are upsetting. "The way Mozart is portrayed by the press and the media, with very young models with bad makeup and crooked wigs, is disgracing. Especially since a dead person can't defend himself." says a dancer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was "la crème de la crème", but now that every theater and opera absolutely must have a Mozart-event, people get turned off.
Musician Martin Schwarz says: "The anniversary doesn't interest me. It's pure marketing. Only the Gods know whether we're really honouring Mozart with all this. He admires Mozart's pieces on the piano: "You've got to listen to it twice. The first time, it might sound like some light pop-song, and it might be deemed shallow, but you wouldn't expect the deepness of his pieces." He is fascinated by Mozart's way of composing his music. "Today, you can't imagine how it was possible for him to compose these pieces. It remains a secret."
Here you have some views of the public. What do you say to the opinions of these people? What's yours? And by the way, do you like classical music in general?
I'm sure everyone knows one piece of his, and be it because of my thread where a scanner plays "Eine kleine Nachtmusik". So I thought we could need a thread dealing with classical music and now here it is. I waited until today to open this thread, because I wanted to include a newspaper-article dealing with the anniversary, and because newspapers are usually one day behind... you get the point. I know that this one article was around, because my mom was interviewed for it. And it is very interesting to hear what people think of the big fuzz made about this day. Of course, I translated this article. :D
"Today, he'd be a punk"
Hype around Mozart's anniversary: What do the people on the street think?
Some only know the rum truffles with marzipan known as "Mozartkugeln" others are upset about the commercial events with Mozart-themes: What our city's inhabitants think of the anniversary.
"Music, Fashion, Hair" are the first things that come to the mind of a woman. But she suspects that some of the famous white wigs were lice- and ratinfested. She says, she likes the light, hopping sound of Mozart's music. "Aside from the music, he never had control of anything. He didn't get along with money and family, he wasn't accepte. I think Mozart was a sociopath, maybe a bit like Robbie Williams is today. Today, says the woman with the short black hair and the big handbag, Mozart would probably be a punk. "One of those who get thrown of the station compound by the police.
"A mad man"
Ricardo Morga is sitting in a café, drinking an Espresso. "Mozart was almost like a God: A mad man, who died young and poor" says the computer technician and hobby-guitarist. When he listens to a concert of the famous composer, he's stunned. He's fascinated by the miraculous merging of sound and the coordination of the instrments. "Mozart was an inventor, who took music to a new level with his experiments"
Spared from Mozart
At the Bärenplatz [famous place in our city - Anarky], Manuela Graf is waiting for a friend to arrive. This morning, she heard a short report on Mozart on the radio, the young woman says. But all she can remember from the top of her head is "Rock me, Amadeus" by Falco. "Falco was cool" but she was spared from Mozart in school. All she knows is that he was supposed to be short and blonde and that the next "Wetten, dass...?" [famous TV-show over here- Anarky] was broadcasted from Salzburg because of the anniversary.
At a cell phone store, salesman Guido Gätzi thinks of the phone of his wife. The ringtone sounds just like a tune by Mozart. And he owns a vinyl-album of one of his concerts, which is tucked away in thin, brown paper. But he himself prefers pop-music, Abba for example.
Marketing shock
One might notice that nobody seems to care about the 250-year anniversary and showed no interest in the Mozart-themed events these days. Quite the opposite, these events are upsetting. "The way Mozart is portrayed by the press and the media, with very young models with bad makeup and crooked wigs, is disgracing. Especially since a dead person can't defend himself." says a dancer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was "la crème de la crème", but now that every theater and opera absolutely must have a Mozart-event, people get turned off.
Musician Martin Schwarz says: "The anniversary doesn't interest me. It's pure marketing. Only the Gods know whether we're really honouring Mozart with all this. He admires Mozart's pieces on the piano: "You've got to listen to it twice. The first time, it might sound like some light pop-song, and it might be deemed shallow, but you wouldn't expect the deepness of his pieces." He is fascinated by Mozart's way of composing his music. "Today, you can't imagine how it was possible for him to compose these pieces. It remains a secret."
Here you have some views of the public. What do you say to the opinions of these people? What's yours? And by the way, do you like classical music in general?