Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!Jonathan Delatizky From: Jonathan Delatizky Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Amadeus, and others Message-ID: <6068@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sun, 25-Nov-84 22:37:35 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6068 Posted: Sun Nov 25 22:37:35 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Nov-84 03:03:20 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 22 The music in "Amadeus" was probably its best feature. The movie itself seemed to me (and to several friends) pretentious and heavy-handed. I did not see the play, which most critics seemed to think was superior. The basic plot line, that Salieri poisoned Mozart, has been quite effectively refuted in recent years, and remains no more than a historical curiosity. I recently heard a report on "All Things Considered" or somewhere similar that the weather in Vienna at the time of Mozart's death was fine, and that the story that he was buried in an unknown pauper's grave is probably another questionable legend. The commentator (I don't remember who it was) said that a more likely explanation for our lack of knowledge about the site of his grave is that Constanze (his widow) failed to keep up the maintenance payments to the cemetry, so they moved him out to recycle the space! To Peter Gayde: I'm not sure how to send net mail directly to you. As another Mahler enthusiast, please try to mail me directly, and we can find a suitable path. I haven't heard Abbado's Mahler 2, but like his recording of #4 (with the VPO) as well as some live BSO broadcasts of other symphonies. More later... ...Jon Delatizky delatz%mit-oz@mit-mc.arpa -------