{"id":152,"date":"2012-01-01T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/2012\/01\/01\/kens-poetry-corner-mozart-edition\/"},"modified":"2012-01-01T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:56:00","slug":"kens-poetry-corner-mozart-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/2012\/01\/kens-poetry-corner-mozart-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken&#8217;s Poetry Corner, Mozart Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-S1qRE7u31d4\/TwBHex7l-hI\/AAAAAAAAARM\/md2QuuNnDsU\/s1600\/220px-Mozart_%2528unfinished%2529_by_Lange_1782.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-S1qRE7u31d4\/TwBHex7l-hI\/AAAAAAAAARM\/md2QuuNnDsU\/s1600\/220px-Mozart_%2528unfinished%2529_by_Lange_1782.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>So when did you become infatuated with Mozart, that famous dead guy?<br \/>It was while working retail at Penny Lane Records in Kansas City.<br \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_Bilson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bilson<\/a> recordings were just coming out, and the music just floored you<br \/>as it spun on the turntable in the record shop.<\/p>\n<p>(Especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piano_Concerto_No._14_(Mozart)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concerto in E flat<\/a>. Always liked <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-flat_major\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that key<\/a> for its allure of grandeur and romance!)<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolfgang_Hildesheimer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hildesheimer<\/a> had been circulating among the employees as well. We knew of Mozart&#8217;s quirks and fate. I had the poem spring to mind all unbidden, as it always does:<\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Amadeus, belly up and buried.<br \/>cashed in his chips, threw in the towel,<br \/>closed up shop,<br \/>expired.<br \/>Left the deriving to us.<br \/>Such is the way of the monkey:<br \/>not much remains unsaid,<br \/>not much remains.<br \/>No marble vault, inscription clear.<br \/>Much more than meets the eye<br \/>we play by ear.<br \/>Yet I would place a marker for the curious<br \/>that many others found death certain,<br \/>success elusive.<br \/>Oh!<br \/>It must have made them furious.<\/p>\n<p>1985<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when did you become infatuated with Mozart, that famous dead guy?It was while working retail at Penny Lane Records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}