Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 2006/01

From: "mlmarmer" <mlmarmer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] music for Mozart's birthday
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:29:53 -0500

Nope, unless you follow Mr. Blumenfeld music. His own composition.

Song was written in jest.

You can read about Mr. Blumenfeld and his CD, by the same title or anyone
else in the music world at www.allmusic.com

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Jacobowitz" <fbjacobo@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] music for Mozart's birthday

> Is there supposed to be a MELODY that we should know?
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
>
> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
> Ebony and Ivory Duo
> On Jan 27, 2006, at 1:07 PM, mlmarmer wrote:
>
> > In honor of Mr. Mozart birthday, here are the lyrics to a accoustic
> > singer/song writer, Hugh Blumenfeld.
> > A wonderful song.
> >
> > MOZART'S MONEY
> >
> > Where the hell did it go?
> > They say he spent it all on wine and women
> > But even so--
> > I know a guy who wrote a song for Garth Brooks
> > And now he's got it made for life
> > But Mozart never really made a lot of money,
> > And that's what I tell my wife.
> > I'd like to know what happened to Poe's
> > Investment portfolio
> > Maybe he walled it up in that crypt
> > With his good friend Fortunato
> > I know a guy who knows Stephen King
> > Who'll be a sheik in the afterlife
> > But Mr. Poe never made much dough
> > And that's what I tell my wife
> > I accost her with tales of Stephen Foster
> > And the visionary William Blake
> > I say "Honey, you can't count the money
> > That a genius doesn't make."
> > But Wallace Stevens was also from Hartford,
> > a big insurance man
> > William Carlos Williams was a pediatrician
> > And Eliot worked in a bank.
> > Time will tell if they were poets as well
> > Or if they're just big books on the shelf
> > But most of my heroes never made a lot of money
> > And that's what I keep telling myself
> > What ever happened to Mozart's money--and what about van Gogh?
> > I tell you there's more than blood that's red in the books of Edgar
> > Allen
> > Poe
> > Imagination in large denominations is something you can never earn
> > But the poor damned souls who made Mozarts money, still got money to
> > burn
> > Yeah, the poor damned souls who made Mozarts money,
> > they still got money to burn
> > Copyright 1995, Hugh Blumenfeld / Hydrogen Jukebox Music
> >
> >
> >
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