[I settled on the clumsy blog post title as an homage to the Philadelphia Orchestra's notoriously awful marketing tag
from fifteen years ago.]
I've written
before about my ambivalent
attitude towards the "great" Joseph Haydn, a composer whose skill and influence I would never question, but whose music simply doesn't move me that often. Among other things, I find his supposed knack for humor to be pretty overrated, although he can hardly be blamed that an unexpectedly loud G Major chord (hear
here at 0:37) has lost a little of its punch due to serious overexposure.
We'll get back to that in a second. First, here's a little story from a few weeks back.
