womzilla | Another ukulele medley

grahamsleight posted this back in late September (that's how far I am behind on my LJ, sorry), and it reminded me very strongly of a sequence from Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus which did not make it into the film adaptation:

Mozart: ... That's why opera is important, Baron. Because it's realer than any play! A dramatic poet would have to put all those thoughts down one after another to represent this second of time. The composer can put them all down once--and still make us hear each one of them. Astonishing device: a Vocal Quartet! [More and more excited] . . . I tell you I want to write a finale lasting half an hour! A quarter becoming a quintet becoming a sextet. On and on, wider and wider--all sound multiplying and rising together--and the together making a sound entirely new! . . . I bet you that's how God hears the world. Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to us! [To Salieri] That's our job! That's our job, we composers: to combine the inner minds of him and him and him, and her and her--the thoughts of chambermaids and Court Composers--and turn the audience into God.

[Pause. Salieri stares at him fascinated. Embarrassed, Mozart blows a raspberry and giggles.]

I'm sorry. I talk nonsense all day: it's incurable--ask Stanzerel.