# I Pit Mozart **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911 "2008-10-14T18:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/21 "2008-10-15T01:01:45Z")
> [@K364](#): > > _Sinfonia_ Concertante - I don’t have a problem with that 🙂 I do, but I have a history with it. (Just to be clear, we’re talking about the concerto for violin and viola, right?) When I was a young conducting student, my maestro was doing this piece with his orchestra. I heard it in rehearsal again and again. It’s a pretty repetitive pice as is, what with that annoying oboe break and all. On top of that, the violist was a bitch who blamed me for her score going missing. I recorded the concert, then mixed it, so it was further driven into my skull. And then I played the tape for friends. So I’d heard it dozens of times in the space of a few weeks. Years later, I called phone support for a crappy software product. It was their hold music. Every five minutes, a recording played to announce hold times. Then the music came back on – FROM THE BEGINNING. I was on hold for a good two hours. To this day, hearing it makes me all stabby. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/22 "2008-10-15T03:01:33Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > They didn’t have those at BC? Have what, fundraisers and receptions? We had them of course, but none that I had any reason to go to. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/23 "2008-10-15T09:45:59Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > This shit just gets old because it’s played out. At any “classy” function, you’re going to hear the Top Ten. Over and over and over again. There’s no depth and no attempt at something new. Just the same Top Ten over and over and over again. I loved going to my uncle’s concerts because it was different pieces every time. You’d think that with someone who wrote as much as Bach did, people would be able to play more than half a dozen bits, but they usually don’t. Uncle did. Funny how you can miss someone you barely met a dozen times, but if it was 12 times, 10 were baroque concerts in tiny venues and 1 a wonderful presentation on Verdi (uncle complained that opera had turned the training of singers from “how to hit the right notes” to “how to get the last row to hear you,” but if you said “Verdi” he’d gloss his life and works for hours and make it superbly interesting). The other one was at an improptu family meeting, when everybody decided to visit another uncle in the hospital on the same day (70 of us in total, not bad for a man with no kids and a family that doesn’t keep up contact). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/24 "2008-10-15T09:50:34Z")
Bunsen burners? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/25 "2008-10-15T12:07:36Z")
Eine Kleine gets played at functions because it’s a no-brainer for the musicians - it’s fairly easy to play and it was written as background music for dinner parties anyway. Ditto Pachelbel Canon, various bits of Handel and so forth. It’s not like most of the guests listen to the music anyway. On the other hand… > [@Solfy](#): > > I pit Mozart for being too repetitious. And for writing “The Magic Flute,” which I had the misfortune of sitting through for twelve days one evening. Dissing _The Magic Flute_?!? I offer you my glove, sir! \ Conductor’s batons at dawn! ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/26 "2008-10-15T21:48:15Z")
At the best fundraisers and stuff I’ve been to it’s been Big Band music all the way, with dancing. And yeah, I agree with you, I’m really tired of Mozart. ---
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/27 "2008-10-16T00:50:17Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > On the other hand…Dissing _The Magic Flute_?!? I offer you my glove, sir! \ Conductor’s batons at dawn! M’am! How does one conduct a conductor’s duel? Exploding batons? Fencing with them? Dueling arias? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/28 "2008-10-16T08:59:52Z")
> [@Solfy](#): > > M’am! How does one conduct a conductor’s duel? Exploding batons? Fencing with them? Dueling arias? _[Stratégie](http://www.mixdinle.com/v52160_iannis-xenakis-strategie.html)_, for two orchestras and two conductors, by Xenakis. From the composer: _The two orchestras are placed on either side of the stage, with the conductors back-to-back. They may choose and play one of six sonic constructions, numbered in the score…The conductors draw lots, choosing a new tactic by taking one card from a pack of 19…_. There’s lots more 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/29 "2008-10-16T13:19:59Z")
Either that, or some kind of floppy hair competition. I’ve been watching Kent Nagano play with his hair all morning. Dude - just buy a hairband already! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911/30 "2008-10-16T15:04:52Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > [Mozart on the Menu: A Delightful Little Dinner Music](http://www.amazon.com/Mozart-Menu-Delightful-Little-Dinner/dp/B0000041DQ/ref=pd_sim_m_6). Guess what’s the first track? Nitpick: Shouldn’t that be, " A Little Delightful Dinner Music" ? Meh. People used to listen to a greater variety of music. Hell, I USED TO. Dunno the last time I bought a new CD of any gengre. Though I heard a guy on Prarie Home Companion last weekend- Nick Lowe? - who sang real purty. I blame the Muzak Corporation. Cartooniverse [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-mozart/467911.md?page=1)