Ja, das ist gut!

I was thinking of this tune the other day, but it was the "pop" version by Waldo De Los Rios which was a substantial hit in the UK when I was a kid. Spooky.

wferrier wrote:

Perfect summation.

prefect segue from Vlatko and Miroslav
and a 10 be itself

jenakle wrote:

Its called Outnumbered! Damn I used to play that game all the time. You are in this television station and go in and out of rooms looking for the Master of Mischief's hideout. When you are in the hallway this music plays and there is this robot that you have to zap with a gun. Now whenever I hear Mozart's Symphony no 40, that is what I think about.

ktnsb wrote:

In Mozart’s time musicians were considered craftsmen and expected to work with set musical phrases. That’s how it was done—the same was true of all his contemporaries and immediate predecessors. This is the actual definition of the classical era in music! This fact is well known. Mozart isn’t respected for originality, he is known for taking those phrases and mixing and matching them in such a way that surpassed everyone before him, and many after. Mozart was compiling better music at 20 than Haydn was at 40. Again well known fact. Mixing and matching modular phrases is still done, in all styles of music, even today, country, rock, jazz, blues, and everything else just about. Listen to piano concerto 21 in C. The beginning is a dumpy little tune, one of those simple melodies that as a kid Mozart was expected to improvise on. Now listen to the entire concerto keeping that it is variations on the dumpy tune. It’s extraordinary—that’s the genius of Mozart.

Stunning....I salute you Bill

Nice pick - just heard this at a concert this past weekend - a nice reminder of an interesting mix between a jazz group with a symphony orchestra that was outstanding.

mgkiwi wrote:

Alors. C'est vrais!

Only on RP - diversity - excellent!

Unereichbares hat der kleine Wolfgang Amadeus seinerzeit gezaubert.

jadewahoo wrote:
If you're THAT sensitive, I'm surprised that you even listen to RP. You might be missed.

I too am not a huge 'classical' fan but this just rocks! It's conventions are way different but the innovation and passion of this work were likely just as innovative as we might attribute to our favorite songs here.

i gotta say: i am really feeling this

ulibcn wrote:

I was just wondering what Bill will segue into right after this... it would be interesting to see.

so good. so good!

ktnsb wrote:

And a laughable one at that. Reminds me of this scene from Manhattan where Diane Keaton and Michael Murphy cut down some intellectual greats in order to sound super sophisticated:

Yale(Michael Murphy): (to Mary) "Gustav Mahler? Hmmm, I think he may be a candidate for the old Academy... " (to Isaac) "...Oh, we've invented the Academy of the Overrated - for such notables as Gustav Mahler..."

Mary(Diane Keaton): "And Isak Dinesen, Karl Jung."

Yale: "F. Scott Fitzgerald..."

Mary: "Lenny Bruce! We can't forget Lenny Bruce now, can we? And how about Norman Mailer?"

Isaac(Woody Allen): (disgusted) "I think those people are all terrific, every one that you've mentioned. What about Mozart? You guys don't want to leave him out. I mean, while you're trashing people..."

ktnsb wrote:

This would be cool to code up and put on-line! I'd listen

jadewahoo wrote:

Please do, if you mind and ears are not open to different styles of music.

Bill is playing gorgeous music this morning. Thanks for that!

There used to be a game you could buy in any well-stocked sheet music store, I forget the name of it but it was about Mozart. The way it worked was you rolled a pair of dice, and a particular musical phrase was associated with different dice combinations. You won the game by writing a longer Mozart composition, or something like that. The point was that just by rolling dice you were putting together actual Mozart compositions, like a theme from this symphony or that horn concerto.
Could you do that with any other composer? Certainly not with just two dice. Mozart was all formula, hardly any inspiration. People like his nice melodies and feel like it's uplifting and all, which is great, but the reality is that hideglue down there is right: he was very prolific, but if you want originality in that time period look to Haydn. Just my opinion, obviously.