Contributed by Liz Ringrose
Mozart in "Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars is a novel written by David Guterson published by Vintage Books. It's supposed to be inspired by one of my all-time favourite novels, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Thanks Liz.)
"Isn't it great when Mozart pops up in literature and other media? I read Snow Falling on Cedars recently and loved the part where Ishmail Chambers sees a recording of the Jupiter on the record player beside his mother's bed, and he imagines her lying there listening to Mozart."
Mozart in These Foolish things
These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach is published by Random House. Moggach makes us face the realities of aging - sincere, funny and at times terrifying. Still an honest view of old age, what it offers and where it might or leads us.
I also read a humorous book called These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach. In this novel a seriously overworked Indian doctor has to have his ghastly English father in law (Norman) living with him. The old man is uncouth and vulgar. I love this passage:
"Mozart's Requiem. Only then could he become a husband again - a human being, even. The house was so small, with her father in it. Ravi's body was in a permanent state of tension. Every room he went into, Norman was there. Just at the Lacrimosa he would blunder in, the transistor [radio] on a string around his neck burbling the cricket commentary from Sri Lanka."
(Thanks Liz. The use of Mozart's Requiem to me is relevant. Symbolic. Significant.)
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