Re: Why do you like Mozart's music?

In article <MPG.1e11843f17502bd0989fbc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wayne Reimer
says...

>But still, I'm curious about who Simon Roberts thinks are the
>equivalents in Philadelphia circa 1790 to Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.

? I was responding to this portion, and this portion only, of Mr. Schaffer's
post:

>You start getting interested in music, you learn to play an
>instrument, you play in ensembles, you receive tuition from older
>musicians, you go to concerts of the most famous orchestras in the
>world, at one point you decide to study music seriously, you practice
>your hands off, and eventually you are one the few who make it into the
>class of one of the highest regarded teachers of your instrument who
>also happened to have supplied the most traditional orchestras in the
>country with a constant stream of new players, you play in world famous
>orchestras like the Gewandhaus which just incidentally have traditions
>reaching further back than any other orchestras anywhere, it all
>happens that innocently.

Simon

.

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