He's conducting Mozart.

Devotional music, good Mozart, good.

Mozart was the same way.

It's Mozart as I, Riccardo Muti, understand it.

This is the kind of rooms that Mozart wrote in.

For example, Mozart, Queen of the Night, looks like this.

Mozart one of the great musical prodigies of all time.

How was that passed on? How did he get to hear Mozart?

Like this Donna Toney poster, or Chopin, or Mozart, or La Monte Young.

I mean, Einstein and Mozart and Tesla would all be probably diagnosed as autistic spectrum today.

No he doesn't really mean Him. He means Mozart, which is like a third seat from the center.

Harmony is the notes that Mozart didn't give you, but somehow the contradiction of his notes suggest that.

So he says, If I'm if I'm responsible for Mozart, this is going to be the only story to be told.

They opened their scores, the conductor gave the downbeat, and boom, they launched into the Kyrie from the Requiem by Mozart.

Well when it comes to classical music, there's an awful lot to pass on, much more than Mozart, Beethoven or Tchiakovsky.

The notion of fetal learning may conjure up for you attempts to enrich the fetus like playing Mozart through headphones placed on a pregnant belly.

And I think it's really important. Because if you can imagine Mozart before the technology of the piano was invented what a loss to society there would be.

The BBC beeps, they sound turquoise, and listening to Mozart became a yellow experience, so I started to paint music and paint people's voices, because people's voices have frequencies that I relate to color.

How do you prevent either the media's interpretation of your work or the scientific community's interpretation of the implications of your work, kind of like the Mozart metaphor, where, Oh, MRIs show that play enhances your intelligence.

This is one reason performing artists in Europe like public money it liberates them from a diet of only Beethoven and Mozart. Moreover, the audience may come to appreciate an adventuresome repertoire the more it becomes exposed to it.

I am a cultural omnivore, one whose daily commute is made possible by attachment to an iPod an iPod that contains Wagner and Mozart, pop diva Christina Aguilera, country singer Josh Turner, gangsta rap artist Kirk Franklin, concerti, symphonies and more and more.

My father found that in a junkyard, and was able to repair it and make it work. And somehow to this day, I frankly don't know how he was so aware of what was going on in the world but, by inviting me to sit down with him when I was only a few years old, and playing records in this Victrola by Mozart, and he would tell me how Mozart was the most romantic of all the classic composers ever, and how Claire de Lune, which was one of his favorites, was a real exposure to me to classical music.

A different book was written not too long ago in the mid 90s called Touched With Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison in which it was looked at in a creative sense in which Mozart and Beethoven and Van Gogh all have this manic depression that they were suffering with.

The question is not one of popularity alone after all, Mozart was popular in his day, and Shakespeare s plays attracted the poor as well as the rich but of mass culture s refusal to challenge and provoke. The result of the failure is a generalized indifference and passivity in audiences.

So, that's my first idea. And we all know about the Mozart effect the idea that's been around for the last five to 10 years that just by listening to music or by playing music to your baby in utero , that it'll raise our IQ points 10, 20, 30 percent.

So, what I think one can begin to do with this kind of cut at the word simplicity, which doesn't cover Brancusi, it doesn't answer the question of why Mondrian is better or worse or simpler or less simpler than Van Gogh, and certainly doesn't address the question of whether Mozart is simpler than Bach.