02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
The Dude Digs Mozart
My local classical-music station is WDAV out of Davidson, N.C. I love listening to it as I drive about town. At least I think I do. A few recent rambles have made me wonder: Are you really a classical music aficionado if your mind makes the cinematic associations that mine does?
Take 'The Barber of Seville: Overture,' played on a jaunt in my pickup. A better man than I would've saluted Rossini's genius. I thought only of the sabotage scene in 'Breaking Away,' where in a road race the idealistic Italophile Dave Stohler realizes that even his heroes, the Italian cycling team, cheat.
