ROCK US, AMADEUS

There is a moment in “Amadeus,” Peter Shaffer's drama about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, that is simultaneously wrenching and enchanting. That is when Antonio Salieri, Mozart's less-talented rival composer, hears Mozart's music for the first time. ¶ He hears the Adagio from theBflat Wind Serenade. It is famous now. Most recently, it was adapted as the main theme for the movie “Bright Star,” about English poet John Keats. But to Salieri it was new– and devastating. ¶ “The beginning –s...

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