"That’s what I mean by genius."

[Richard Barrett]

Read and weep.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/national-theatre-live/myleene-klass-on-mozart/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

[Serial_Apologist]

Read and weep.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/n...d=tmg_share_tw

Then thank heavens there aren't any geniuses around any more!

[teamsaint]

Then thank heavens there aren't any geniuses around any more!

Damn good thing.
Saves us from having to put them back into bottles.

[Serial_Apologist]

Damn good thing.
Saves us from having to put them back into bottles.

(That's the rub)

[Richard Barrett]

But (splutter) is this now the level of cultural discourse to be expected from a supposedly "intelligent" newspaper? Not that I ever read it, my attention was drawn to this by someone else, but

[Nick Armstrong]

Read and weep.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/n...d=tmg_share_tw

The parenthesis in sentence #3 stopped me reading the rest. I was too busy throwing up.

[Dave2002]

Damn good thing.
Saves us from having to put them back into bottles.

... or to rub them up ....

[jean]

It took genius to turn Allegri’s Miserere into a Mass!

[subcontrabass]

It took genius to turn Allegri’s Miserere into a Mass!

And for Mozart visiting St Paul's to hear something being sung in the Sistine Chapel.

[Ferretfancy]

I will surprise you all with my proudly intellectual response to Ms Klass, but let me do so in a few years time when I have listened to all the 200 CDs in that bumper box. She will just have to wait in the meantime.

[cloughie]

I will surprise you all with my proudly intellectual response to Ms Klass, but let me do so in a few years time when I have listened to all the 200 CDs in that bumper box. She will just have to wait in the meantime.

Surely that's only hearsay!

[DoctorT]

Klass: rhymes with crass

[Barbirollians]

Myleene Mansion Tax hating Klass .

[BBMmk2]

Words fail me!!!!!!

[MrGongGong]

As a young man, he visited St Paul’s in Rome and heard Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere being performed. This sacred piece of music had never been written down but Mozart went back to his boarding house and transcribed the entire mass from memory, perfectly. That’s what I mean by genius.