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  “Mozart“ (2015)

       Bernd Luz

          ______

having been immersed recently, indeed 

consumed by, Ovid, his Metamorphoses, 

for four months now, according to a 

friend, since, however improbably, April, 

and we’re now in mid-August, I’ve been 

redirected recently, not only for

metaphysical breath, but by friends 

who’ve brought up other ideological 

realities

I watched a concert on TV yesterday, 

my mother said this morning when I 

went over for coffee, she lives, 

providentially, to my mind, only a few 

blocks away, we touch bases regularly

great, I reacted, I’ve got it on tape, I 

was meaning to watch it later

the pianist, she marvelled, also

conducted, I’ve never seen that

I cheered her on, and couldn’t wait to 

see for myself when I got home

but couldn’t watch more than a few 

moments, the pianist / conductor, 

famous in his day, had become 

crotchety, decrepit, the piece was 

Mozart, you can’t play Mozart with 

arthritic fingers

which had me finding the mistress of 

Mozart on the internet, unmatched at 

Mozart to this day, Mitsuko Uchida, 

watch her transform Mozart’s flights 

of lyrical fantasy into utter, and 

irrepressible, magic, sent it to my

mom for incontrovertible 

corroboration

his 20th Piano Concerto, K.466

watch, marvel   

R ! chard