Writer's Block: Time in a bottle

[matrixrefugee]

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Hm... Laundry list here, but I'll keep it down to three:

--The castrato Farinelli, who in some ways could be described as the Michael Jackson of the late 1700's and was a good friend of Mozart (enough that they called each other brothers);

--Mozart as a kid playing for the nobility;

--Antonio Vivaldi and the orchestra of the girls' school he was the music master for.

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[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, re: opera being addictive. I used to listen to the Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan, when I was in my teen years; while other kids my age were drooling over Kurt Cobain, I was drooling over Jerry Hadley and James Morris. And I just found out that the cinema I went to earlier today also screens telecasts from the Met, about every month or so during the season. If I can talk my folks into it, I might look into this.