He even took the gramophone with him on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart." Unlike Denys Finch Hatton, I never carried three rifles but the music of Mozart - at first in vinyl, then on cassette, then CD, now on a USB stick - was close at hand wherever I went.
Mozart's clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622, Adagio is simply music from the gods. Coupled with the breathtaking scenery from 'Out of Africa', those clarinets, oboes and cellos touch that melancholy mood which makes it all worthwhile being a member of the human race.
It's only eight o'clock in the morning but the computer already displays a heat warning. I'll make today a do-nothing day: do nothing and listen to nothing, no television, no radio, no Trump — just me and Mozart.
P.S. Of course, I'm always concerned about your further education, so allow me to add something "further" about that 'K. 622' in Mozart's clarinet concerto in A major: the 'K' stands for 'Köchel' and refers to the 'Köchel-Verzeichnis', the definitive chronological and thematic catalog of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's compositions, created by the Austrian Ludwig Ritter von Köchel and first published in 1862, which makes the word 'Köchel' an eponym — but you already knew that, Des, didn't you?
