Was hat Europa zu fürchten?
Das eines seiner großen Völker, das zur Zeit der europäischen Weltmacht nie zum Zuge gekommen ist, immer noch von Weltmacht träumt: - Deutschland, dem es beinahe schon gelungen ist, Europa zugrunde zu richten im Bestand seiner Menschen und Werke, jenes Europa, das jenseits der Weltherrschaft einen höchsten Sinn haben könnte, eine Blüte, eine Reife, eine Ausstrahlung -
Max Frisch - Tagebuch - Paris, Juli 1948
“Somebody might see you are a girl and not let you run. Take it off.”
“I will not take off my lipstick.”
However, since several notes throughout the piece go beyond the conventional range of the A clarinet, we can presume it was intended to be played on the basset clarinet, a special clarinet championed by Stadler that had a range down to low (written) C, instead of stopping at (written) E as standard clarinets do.
Even in Mozart's day, the basset clarinet was a rare, custom made instrument, so when the piece was published posthumously, a new version was arranged with the low notes transposed to regular range. This has proven a problematic decision, as the autograph no longer exists, having been pawned by Stadler, and until the mid 20th century musicologists did not know that the only version of the concerto written by Mozart's hand had not been heard since Stadler's lifetime.
And love's always been the message. It's just - circumstances happen, right? People freak out, just flat flip out, you know?
from the preface of Firewall on The People's Key by the Bright Eyes
Old loves they die hard
Old lies they die harder
