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Rock Me Amadeus

The music I like to listen to is all over the place, as you are about to see… We spent some time driving around this morning (laundry, donut shop, groceries, Bitter Lake NWR) and I’ve figured out that a semi-obsessive diet of news is not doing my head any good. So Maisie and I listened to the Aria Code podcast. The latest post is a throwback: a repost of season one’s “Mozart’s Queen of the Night” . I find opera quite enjoyable – having no idea what is going on most of the time is no barrier. I just let the sound flow over me. I like Aria Code, though; it’s good to get some insight into the stories, the history and the musicology.

We got to the point in the podcast when the featured singer performs the aria and yes, it was Sehr schön. But as it started… “Hey waitaminnit!” I recognized the passage from a very different context. Another fave genre is soul music and a staple podcast is Mr. Fine Wine’s “Downtown Soulville“. The podcast, as delivered to my player anyway, is a rip of the radio show and it never ends exactly when the radio show does. One always gets a couple songs from Nate K’s “Burn It Down“. It’s a good show too – I can’t find it in podcast form, so my listening is restricted to back at camp when i think of it (not often enough). The Burn It Down intro is very familiar to me – I don’t know where the monologue is from (though i probably should) but I can now positively ID the aria in the background. Yay me! Here’s the Dec 8 2023 show – you only need to listen for a minute or so to get it.

And yes, I’m listening to the entire Magic Flute at the moment.