From Leopold Mozart’s teaching and promotion of his son’s early career to the later compositions of Franz Xaver Mozart, the program traces the musical lineage surrounding one of history’s most celebrated composers.
In retrospect, humiliating Sessions seems petty compared to reassuring the American public that anyone can get a test whenever they need for a virus that can kill them, when, in fact, they can’t get a test because this very stable genius had already presided over the mass firing of the very people who know most about viruses, and had already cut the budgets of every agency we’d normally rely on to combat the disease.