Mozart was a practical joker and he wrote his “joke”
composition to sound as if the musicians had never seen the music before and
would never be asked back to play again. Now everyone knows that the best humor
sounds effortless and that this can only be achieved by people that are talented
and very experienced. Last night the Omaha Consort nailed it. The musicians,
with smiles on their faces, took the audience on a wild ride through dissonances,
musical clichés and random tempo changes, all interspersed with passages of
lyrical beauty when they got it “right”.
It was an “insider” joke by a musical genius, and the
audience loved it.
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