Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Salieri and Mozart; psyco-babble biographies Message-ID: <1326@hound.UUCP> Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:34:17 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1326 Posted: Sun Aug 25 01:34:17 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:13:29 EDT References: <4980@allegra.UUCP> Distribution: net.music.classical Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 21 [] I agree with everything you say except one thing. Check my original article. I think I said ...even a Salieri. (emphasis added now). I agree that even that was pretentious of me. I can't read music. I can play chopsticks, "If I were single again," and , if I'm in good form, maybe part of a simplified, key of C version of Tantum Ergo I forced myself to memorize once out of a hymnal. ..Let's see, (EVBDF) this must be , mm d and thatts this white key next to C, and...(I mean EGBDF, above). I have been trying to collect recordings of Salieri to bolster my own feeling that he has been done in. They are damn gew and far between. I heard one on the radio the other day - I had forgotten, you remind me - I must get it. It was about 20 - 25 minutes of variations on some obscure theme. After a while it was driving me sane! Depending on how the variation went the theme was unuterrably sad and despondent or cheery. I must have that recording!!!!! What was its name?? -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg