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...been said that listening to Mozart makes you smarter, that something in the musical patterns stimulates intelligence. The author Stefan Kanfer proposes a counter-theory, which he calls the "Trazom Effect," after Mozart spelled backward. Kanfer's idea is that listening to certain people, or ideas, or music, can make a person dangerously stupid. The Trazom Effect is at work up and down the pop-cultural horizontal on which we live...
...Dispiriting. The Trazom Effect goes to work on the lazy, the ignorant, the passive. But I was there when the students of the Boston University School for the Arts Opera Programs and Chamber Orchestra performed "Le Nozze de Figaro." Putting together that magic four hours required brains, talent, and training - after all, apart from mastering the gaily demanding music, they had to learn Italian in order to sing the libretto...
...trifle about a shepherd king who is prepared to give up the throne for his sweetheart. Director Mark Lamos uses a scene-shifting crew of children in T shirts and sneakers, who playfully push four large letters together, forming AMOR. Later, two more letters appear to create the enigmatic TRAZOM. For the happy finale, the letters are reversed. The composer, who often used the backward spelling in correspondence, would have enjoyed the joke...
Mozart: Hey--hey--what's "Trazom...
...Mozart spelled backwards--shit-wit! If you ever married me, you'd be Constanze Trazom...
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