This was funny. The other day I was playing classical music for Nate and Corey. I played them some of the biggies... The Blue Danube, Vivaldi's "Spring", the most popular of the Bach Brandenburg Concertos, etc. -- no response out of them -- "Yeah, that's nice, daddy..."
I remembered the movie Amadeus and how the narrator/antagonist in the movie went through all these songs with the person interviewing him. The interviewer didn't recognize any until he threw out Mozart's "Eine Kliene Nachtmusik."
So -- I tried that one and wouldn't you know it, they started humming and dancing and really enjoying themselves. It's funny -- there response typified the problem the narrator experienced with Amadeus. None of the things he wrote were remembered. Mozart's music, however, was still popular and still loved by the people years and years later. Out of all that other music, only Mozart moved them. :-)
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