{"id":2365,"date":"2012-10-09T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:13:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:13:43","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-292-roach-days-revisited-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/10\/09\/my-musical-evolution-part-292-roach-days-revisited-mozart\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 292 Roach Days Revisited Mozart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amadeus<\/a>If you have been following along from the beginning, you’ll recall that My Musical Evolution<\/em> had a good sized dose of Classical music way back in my early childhood courtesy of a few classical compilation albums that my mother had. My interest in classical music exapnded with the discovery of Switched-On Bach<\/em> at my aunt’s house in Vermont.\u00a0 Along the way, classical music would drift into the picture, usually in a very indirect manner.<\/p>\n

I purchased my own copy of Switched-On Bach<\/em> and explored the “original” versions behind those Moog-ified gems. Still my focus was primarily on Bach. I reasoned that my background in math and computer science was what attracted me to the precise and mechanical nature of Bach’s music. With Bach, the timing and the arrival of each note in the piece was expected like in a computer program. I often felt that Bach didn’t write music so much as outlined a framework of rules and the music what whatever was left after the rules were all applied.<\/p>\n

My appreciation for classical music would be re-ignited and expanded by Mozart. I saw the movie Amadeus<\/em> on A&E during the Roach Days. It really had an impact on me. The first part was not unlike my Doors <\/em>discovery<\/em> on that hike with Adam back to Doc’s camp. As the movie progressed, I realized that I was quite familiar with several of Mozart’s compositions without know that they all belonged to Mozart. The second piece of this puzzle was the story of Mozart as presented in the film was fascinating. I looked ahead in the cable \u00a0guide and on the next airing commited the film to Betamax.<\/p>\n

Where Bach was mechanical and precise, Mozart was emotional free to compose whatever he felt.<\/em> It also gave me a new appreciation for the woodwinds. As a kid, the Star Wars soundtrack made me a fsan of Brass. Those powerful horns bellowing out the theme. Somewhere along the line I shifted toward the string section and loved the versatility of violins, violas and cellos. Here with Mozart, oboes, clarinets and bassoons were utilized in such an amazing way that I couldn’t help but crave their subtle sweetness.\u00a0 You’ll hear what I’m talking about on Serenade For Winds.\u00a0 Mozart’s <\/em> body of work is truly amazing. Eventually I would collect all of his symphonies and numeorus other works.\u00a0 He was a prolific composer and while they might not all be “hits” there is a certain something about his music that is worth checking out.\u00a0 Doesn’t it seem odd to be into Metallica<\/em> so much just a few posts ago and to be into Mozart<\/em> so much now?<\/p>\n

Symphony Number 25<\/em>
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