Word: mozart
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...also confuses the free speech/obscenity issue. There are no such things as absolute rights, and the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee does not protect obscenity. That said, the challenge is to figure out what is and is not obscene. If 2 Live Crew ever does a version of Mozart's "Magic Flute," no one except music lovers will complain. The unedited "Me So Horny" is another matter...
...recent revelations of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's less famous, more sensual lyrics raise familiar questions about art, decency and the press. Besides being titilating, the lyrics we printed have other serious values...
WOULD the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fund Mozart? Given the precedent of the Mapplethorpe-Helms conflagration, we cannot be sure. Would Tipper Gore push for labeling copies of Mozart canons...
...While Mozart's "licking" lyrics are racy, they do not take away from the composer's other works. We hope the NEA would fund Mozart, because his work is not exclusively devoted to what a Harvard music librarian called an "innocent, juvenile preoccupation with bodily functions." What should matter in the NEA grant process is artistic merit, not adherence by an artist to strict community standards or a particular moral structure in his or her privately financed works...
...this is the man who wrote the Jupiter Symphony and The Marriage of Figaro. Do both passages demonstrate a mutual understanding of Mozart's bawdiness, or were the two texts separated at birth? You make the call...