Word: mozartism
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...listening classes, however, there is far less room for any discussion of a definitive right and wrong. In fact, it seems that because we will never know precisely what a Dickens or a Tennyson, a Mozart or a Michelangelo, a Hitchcock or an Ellington intended to convey, there is a certain humility inherent to the study of their arts. A premium is placed on digesting as much as possible in the way of opinion and suggestion; yours are as good as mine, and mine no better than hers...
...remained a mystery intact. The matter of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, and which of them was telling the truth, became a litmus test for several generations, a marker not only of political sympathies but also of intellectual class and sensibility. Hiss and Chambers were the cold war's Mozart and Salieri, and their mysteries were multilayered. If you went below the murk of espionage and infiltration and double lives--a subject fascinating in itself--you penetrated to the deeper strangeness of the two men's psychologies and, yet deeper, to the disconcerting affinities...
...speed--perhaps up to 140 m.p.h.--only a few feet from the cars in front and behind but protected by collision-avoidance radar and automatic brakes, with guidance coils on either side steering it down the center of the lane. You, meanwhile, can recline your seat, pop in some Mozart and close your eyes. A network of satellite-linked computer systems will guide you safely to your exit, at which point you will resume control and drive yourself to your final destination...
...MOZART OF POETRY...
Charity makes strange stagefellows. SHERYL CROW and LUCIANO PAVAROTTI dipped into each other's arias of expertise for Pavarotti and Friends for War Child, a concert recording that's intended to raise money for children in war-torn areas. Crow gamely attempted a duet from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Pavarotti almost as bravely launched into Holy Mother with Eric Clapton, Live Like Horses with Elton John and New York, New York with Liza Minnelli. The album's almost worth a listen just to hear him go for the big notes in "Myyyy little town blooos...