Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>

>>Does anyone knows what's exactly the so called "Mozart Effect"?.  I've
>>heard about it something like this: that the music of Mozart has a high
>>incidence at the development of intelligence when used with kids for
>>educational purposes.  Is this correct (or true)?.  Why Mozart, then?,
>>why not a "Haydn effect"?.
>
>As I understand it, kids about to take tests were subjected to classical
>music.  Compared to their fellows who hadn't heard the music, they did
>a little better.  However, the effect was apparently only temporary.

I wonder if the true "Mozart Effect" wouldn't be trichynosis?.

>As to why it's Mozart's and not Haydn's effect, that would be because,
>since no one has recently made a popular movie of Haydn's life, Mozart
>is just about the only classical composer people in the United States
>currently know ("Immortal Beloved" hasn't yet been re-released on DVD
>in a director's cut).

That can be fixed up inmediately.  Why not a Haydn's life by Ridley
Scott? ("Franzl").  Franzl is a musician, but he is also a spy of
the Prince Esterhazy and goes around the courts of Europe seducing
XVIII century chicks in order to find out the plots of the French
revolutionaries.  He employs music in order to codify his messages (with
the help of a misterious man named Dr.  Hoboken).  However at the end of
his life in Vienna he meets a beautiful venezuelan rebel, cousin to Simon
Bolivar (Jennifer Lopez), he falls in love and he secretly embraces the
cause of the South American Liberty, with high risk of his life.  His last
creation ("The Idem") is a massive work in which everybody believes to hear
a tribute to God, but actually (read in code) the work is a great "Eat my
shorts!!!" in the face of all those european tyrans, the Prince Esterhazy
included.  The movie ends with Napoleon in Vienna, visiting Franzl's
deathbed.  Napoleon takes the hand of the dying old man and says:
"...Thanks".  Franzl gives him a little smile, and then he dies.
Of course, the titles will show the legend "based on real facts".

Pablo Massa
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