Out of Africa is one of those movies you don't easily forget - and probably never if you have lived and worked in Africa as I have done, and grew up in Germany on Mozart's music as I also did: Clarinet concerto in A major, Köchel Nr. 622.
Remember that unforgettable scene where Denys, after placing his gramophone in a field near wild baboons, turns to Karen Blixen and says, "Think of it: never a man-made sound ... and then Mozart!"
A lady in the pool this morning talked about classical music, and how much she loved German classical music, and how much she detested people who didn't properly pronounce the names of Wagner and Mozart.
I asked her what she thought of that often deliberately mispronounced eminent eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant but she must've misunderstood my question because I never heard her reply.
P.S. It's late in the evening and Köchel 525 for me - click here. (Listening to Mozart always makes me feel good about being old because when he turned seventy-eight he had already been dead for forty-three years.)
