From: "Steve Smith" <ssmith36@sprynet.com>
Yes, wasn't it Gould who once said, "The problem with Mozart wasn't that he wrote too few works, but too many"? The man was definitely free with his critical bon mots.
Agreed. He's another interesting Mozart quote that I just ran across. "My feeling is that if you want to listen to something primitive, you should listen to Mozart. Because if you hear Mozart, there's almost no rhythmic variation in it, it's 1-2-3-4 forever. No cross-rhythms or polyrhythms to speak of. The way that music's interpeted, all of the tonal qualities of the instruments tend to be very clean and pristine. There's no kind of textural variety like you would get in the blues, in terms of roughening the texture out on certain words, playing around with the pitch on certain words. Nothing like that in Mozart." --- Robert Palmer in Toby Gleason's Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music. Best, Jason Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine perfect-sound@furious.com http://www.perfectsoundforever.com