Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Oliver Solanet gleefully pushes hot buttons.
>
>>Other than a burdensome touring schedule, why did Rachmaninov barely
>>write a thing after leaving Russia?  Because his muse, his homeland,
>>was no longer present.
>
>A little too metaphysical for me.  A burdensome touring schedule isn't
>nothing.

And nonsense as well, e.g.  Dvorak and Wolfie (and all those "boring"
compositions).

>...  But, like you, I don't quite understand the show-bizzy fascination
>for Mozart, unless it's due to the fact that a popular movie was made
>about a character with almost his name.

Really?  I'm certain you know it was anticipated that it could make
money and it did.  The movie, the shows, the DVDs, Peter Shaffer, F. 
Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce (and all the Salieris in the plays).

Norman Schwartz
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