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12-01-2004, 09:28 AM
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jack's smirking revenge
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Location: denton
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MOZART
But it's new, it's entirely new. It's so new, people will go mad for it. For example, I have a scene in the second act - it starts as a duet, just a man and wife quarreling. Suddenly the wife's scheming little maid comes in unexpectedly - a very funny situ- ation. Duet turns into trio. Then the husband's equally scream- ing valet comes in. Trio turns into quartet. Then a stupid old gardener - quartet becomes quintet, and so on. On and on, sex- tet, septet, octet! How long do you think I can sustain that? JOSEPH I have no idea. MOZART Guess! Guess, Majesty. Imagine the longest time such a thing could last, then double it. JOSEPH Well, six or seven minutes! maybe eight! MOZART Twenty, sire! How about twenty? Twenty minutes of continuous music. No recitatives. VON SWIETEN Mozart - MOZART (ignoring him) Sire, only opera can do this. In a play, if more than one person speaks at the same time, it's just noise. No one can understand a word. But with music, with music you can have twenty individu- als all talking at once, and it's not noise - it's a perfect harmony. Isn't that marvelous? -Mozart in 'Amadeus'
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