{"id":7545,"date":"2011-02-02T00:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7545"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:20:58","slug":"bernhard-lang-i-hate-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7545","title":{"rendered":"Bernhard Lang &#8211; <em>I Hate Mozart<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/01_2011\/bernhard_lang_I_hate_mozart.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/bernhard_lang_I_hate_mozart.jpg\" height=\"180\" alt=\"mathematics\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/01_2011\/bernhard_lang_I_hate_mozart.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">I Hate Mozart [excerpt] (2006, 11MB, 4:03 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the 2006 production of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernhard_Lang\" target=\"_blank\">Bernhard Lang&#8217;s<\/a> opera<br \/>\n<em>I Hate Mozart<\/em> written for the Viennese Mozart Year festivities<br \/>\nof that year.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting in a number of ways. Lang&#8217;s musical language is based upon the<br \/>\nloop, but loops treated within a fairly hardcore art music environment.<br \/>\nSounds like a recipe for pretension or disaster. Strangely it&#8217;s neither,<br \/>\nbut most compelling.<br \/>\nSecondly, the piece is that rare beast, too often promised and so rarely<br \/>\ndelivered, a genuinely comic opera and all the more impressive for being<br \/>\ncast in an apparently recalcitrant &#038; unforgiving musical language<br \/>\nfor such a purpose.<br \/>\nHats off, Mr Lang, hats off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Hate Mozart [excerpt] (2006, 11MB, 4:03 min) Excerpt from the 2006 production of Bernhard Lang&#8217;s opera I Hate Mozart written for the Viennese Mozart Year festivities of that year. It&#8217;s interesting in a number of ways. Lang&#8217;s musical language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,76,14,45,68,111,29,56,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event","category-experimental","category-humor","category-music","category-opera","category-performance","category-theatre","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12254,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions\/12254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}