Klarinet Archive - Posting 000435.txt from 2004/09

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <arlyss1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart Forgeries
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:14:23 -0400

Dan Leeson wrote:

>But Leeson, as shown in his new book,really is crazy!! He needs to be institutionalized for trying to make K. 622 and 581 interesting literary subjects. Wagner, maybe. George Antheil, maybe. Even Fanny Mendelssohn, maybe. But Mozart?? Never. He was too uninteresting a subject...
>Now with insults of that quality, I'd soon have one hell of a
>readership. I need to be investigated by the UnAmerican
>Activities Committee and my text made into an X-rated movie.
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hmmm...you could put up a website showing reed making that is allegedly
un-American? People sneaking Argentinian cane past customs? Darn...too
bad you weren't around me when I had my screwdriver set confiscated by
Swedish customs two years ago. Now THAT might have made news...or been
something to notify John Ashcroft about.... *thinks*

I always thought Mozart was a party animal. But then, perhaps I've
simply seen "Amadeus" one too many a time. *Sigh* I can't tell fact
from fiction much anymore. Too many historical novels.

Patricia Smith

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