TomE and Mozart

[tcm]

November again, which reminds me of the late great TomE of this parish.

I play this music for him. And I weep again, bugger....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ8ZHilxdm8

 

[Serin]

Can't say I knew TomE, although I remember his posts.

Sublime music, though. I am amused by one comment - "that the women are singing about something so beautiful it couldn't be expressed in words." In fact, they (the Countess Almaviva and her maid, Susanna) are plotting together to deceive the Duke Almaviva and trap him into revealing his unreciprocated lust for Susanna. Beautiful indeed.

 

[dom]

One of the warmest, kindest and most insightful human beings I have ever had the privilege of knowing,

 

[JohnGC]

Can't say I knew TomE, although I remember his posts.

Sublime music, though. I am amused by one comment - "that the women are singing about something so beautiful it couldn't be expressed in words." In fact, they (the Countess Almaviva and her maid, Susanna) are plotting together to deceive the Duke Almaviva and trap him into revealing his unreciprocated lust for Susanna. Beautiful indeed.

Morgan Freeman says this in The Shawshank Redemption.
Around 2:18 in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzuM2XTnpSA

I prefer to think that the Countess is about to remind the Count that it is she he really loves and should forget his lust for Susanna. He does; after all he went to a lot of trouble in the Barber of Seville.

 

[Serin]

Morgan Freeman says this in The Shawshank Redemption.
Around 2:18 in this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzuM2XTnpSA

I prefer to think that the Countess is about to remind the Count that it is she he really loves and should forget his lust for Susanna. He does; after all he went to a lot of trouble in the Barber of Seville.

Well, he asks her pardon, of course, but will he really change his spots?? I'm never so sure. And Mozart was the consummate realist about human affairs. Never saw the Shawshank Redemption, but I've seen a lot of Figaros.

Sounds to me as if TomE was the kind of man who would have appreciated the delicious irony and smiling humanism that pervades Mozart's Da Ponte operas.