Posted on 03/25/2017 6:45:56 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
I am a great opera fan.
LOVE it.
I have over 20 on DVD JUST TO KEEP ME TUNED UP.
But I can’t stand Mozart’s operas. All high notes in a major key, absolutely NO drama or tragedy.
To me, every note written by Mozart sounds like a tree full of birds and I friggin’ hate it.
I like Wagner as well, some Puccini. My husband is a huge Verdi fan. We were lucky to see Nabucco with Placido in December. How I’d love to see another Mozart without going broke.
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If I’m going to be listening to opera please let it be Puccini!
“Mozart’s Requiem is one of the masterpieces of western music”
It’s the only decent tune he ever wrote.
He dipped his toe into a minor key and discovered he didn’t like it.
Then by all means, lift yourself. (Sorry, it's not the Requiem.)
How could you have missed Rigoletto?
If that don't beat all.
by Marvin Stinson
A fussy, effete lttle man, whose own character is well expressed by that of the maggot in a corpse, going through life transfixed with his own navel (but that's too high).
In his repulsive and insane FR posting on Mozart, Charles O'Connell used the resources of FR as his own pudenda, a prolonged act of cultural onanism. His failure even to attempt to appear sane shows how granting the boon of the possibilities of the human mind is casting pearls before swine to a corrupt little human.
Reading all of Charles O'Connell's crap in order of composition, you see Charles O'Connell started composing the most stilted, artificial posts in a low mentality, blowhard style, veering off course from a sane path. The crap he posts shows the eyes of despairing, pathetic little man who couldn't live up to the accomplishments of a maggot.
Don’t you just love how many people are experts in fields they don’t know anything about?
I wonder how many masterpieces this author has composed.
Surely, he can show the world how it’s supposed to be done.
No drama??! Beaumarchais provides no drama?! Don Giovanni has no drama?! LOL.
That does it: in your FR opus and/or your funeral, I’m gonna play the first movement of Mozart’s Requiem and turn up the volume!
Look, we all have our favorites (Verdi isn’t mine) but to say he wrote for women, etc., isn’t based in fact but feelings.
Scary Clowns.
My husband calls him Joe Green as well. I looking around for the Marriage of Figuro right now to pop into the cd player. I usually play it on long car rides.
Ravel’s Bolero is very repetitive. Some people think he may have had a mental or brain imbalance.
Hollywood movies are not the place to get the real world.
Sure, there was artistic license from beginning to end - as expected, given the subject and the information available. It wasn't intended as a documentary.
OF COURSE it’s feelings.
Music stirs feeling, good music or bad music.
It has no other purpose but to stir the soul. And the good stuff is an expression of the soul of man as he reaches for, and is sometimes blessed by God.
But take note: At a gut level most manly men cannot stand Mozart. They can be tremendous fans of Classical music and opera, but have a genetically encoded aversion to Mozart.
Because of the feelings it generates. It has nothing to do with complexity or whether it’s high art.
You can observe this in your own friends and family.
Even somebody like me, who cannot stand Mozart (I also cannot tolerate McCartney) can recognize him as genius.
Well-said, Marv... :^)
In 200 more years, Mozart’s music will probably STILL be around... Enough said.
A precise description of the workings of the mind of the author: A nasty, unsatisfied and ungrateful little man.
Your post is as silly as the original poster. Real men can’t listen to Mozart! I just listened to my favorite - the finale of The Marriage of Figaro - straight from God to Mozart. And God, I think most freepers can agree, was a man.
You’ll remember my words as you observe, through the years, which men prefer Mozart.
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