Who here appreciates Mozart?

[teuchter]

Mozart is supposed to be the best thing to get rambunctious young boys to behave and concentrate in the classroom but I have my doubts.

For a while they were saying that it improved kids' exam results if they listened to it beforehand (or something) but this has since been debunked and it turns out that they perform better if they listen to music they like, regardless of what it is.

 

[gentlegreen]

Are they still using Mozart and the like to keep kids from congregating outside the COOP and places like that ?

It would work for me too.

 

[teuchter]

Well they are still using classical music in various tube stations to this end.

 

[D]

urk.

 

[Cheesypoof]

can't get into it

go and kill yourself.

 

[Cheesypoof]

well they are still using classical music in various tube stations to this end.

kill yoursrelf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[D]

this thread has already turned into complete ridiculousness

 

[teuchter]

kill yoursrelf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok do I have to do it now or can it wait till the morning?

 

[kyser_soze]

this thread has already turned into complete ridiculousness

Yes, I believe it happened around #24.

classical music is pure bourgeois wanking with instruments

What does that make jazz then?

 

[editor]

go and kill yourself.

kill yoursrelf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stop this now, please. The next pointlessly disruptive post will earn you a ban. Ta.

 

[fogbat]

I played french horn for years, so I've played most of his horn concertos. Will always have a soft spot for them

 

[Lea]

I saw the opera Cosi Fan Tutte recently and enjoyed it but I'm not a great fan of Mozart. I prefer Rimsky-Korsakov and Liszt.

 

[danny la rouge]

classical music is pure bourgeois wanking with instruments

Even if you mean "classical", you're very mistaken.

 

[kabbes]

Mozart is more fun to play than to listen to, in my opinion. I still love him though. But I prefer the Romantics (particularly the Russians) and late 19th/early 20th century French sound poets. Give me Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Mussorgsky, Dvorak or Borodin over Mozart any day.

 

[Cloo]

I love the Requiem (though the latter part isn't entirely by him), the bassoon concerto and his operas. His vespers and some of his lesser-known concert arias are great too. I don't know quite what it is about Mozart, but he definitely refreshes the parts that not many other composers can reach. Or something.

 

[D]

I played french horn for years, so I've played most of his horn concertos. Will always have a soft spot for them

(french horn)

 

[Fictionist]

Not a huge fan. Technically good but manages to sound lifeless and shiny to no great emotional effect.