do you guys wanna get up early and get pastries and eat them in the park and lay in the grass for a while and then go for a long walk to an antique centre and wander round and hold things up and say “this is you 🫵” and then watch classic who and parallel play by working on our individual writing/art projects for the rest of the day with intermittent drink/snack breaks and none of us ever have to look at microsoft outlook or receive an email ever again
Salieri had to talk about hearing the music of true forgiveness in “Più docile io sono e dico di sì” because of chronology, sure, but also because if he talked about the music of true seduction in “La chi darem la mano,” particularly when that piece is about Don Giovanni adapting to and iterating upon Zerlina’s theme to seduce her, thus narratively paralleled by Mozart adapting and iterating on Salieri’s march, we never would’ve made it out alive.
