DECOMPOSING MOZART

(A rare picture of that brilliant classicist, P. D. Q. Bach, otherwise known as Herr Doktor Prof. Peter Schickele)

One of the many valuable aspects of MEDIUM is that it constitutes an opportunity to leisurely graze across many fields of topical subject matter, pausing here and there to chew contentedly on various things that often or not won’t quite digest as well as four ruminant stomachs (or even one) should enable them to be.

Very recently, in the course of perusing an article by one of our more astute gazetteers (Garrett Andrew…