Speaker 1: Well, look at you be, all dressed up for today's show. Well,
Speaker 1: pardon me, Elliott, but where are my rose pedals and
Speaker 1: where is my root beer float? I sent specific instructions
Speaker 1: on what was to be waiting for me when I
Speaker 1: got here, and I am disappointed. You're fired. Why are
Speaker 1: you behaving like this? Be well, I wanted to behave
Speaker 1: like one of our historical figures. Mozart was writing music
Speaker 1: by the time he was five, so that ship is sailed.
Speaker 1: So I'm being like our other figure, Maria tall chief,
Speaker 1: by being a Prima Donna and acting very extra B
Speaker 1: Maria wasn't a Prima Donna, which is like a diva,
Speaker 1: she was a Prima Ballerina, which is the most important
Speaker 1: member of a ballet company. Maria and Mozart were both
Speaker 1: hard working artists, not demanding meanie's. Okay, point taken. I'll
Speaker 1: stop acting like a jerk as long as I get
Speaker 1: to keep wearing my two TU. How will that be
Speaker 1: different from any other show we do, because you're also
Speaker 1: wearing a two Tu? To Touche Eric, please play the
Speaker 1: theme song food. You know about the greats from this store.
Speaker 1: The game is on. To get some energy and buckle
Speaker 1: up your brain, because it's time to play the wost podcast,
Speaker 1: because it's time to play books. Who Live from tongue
Speaker 1: the land, or so called, so call Los Angeles. Welcome
Speaker 1: to who was, the history quiz show that gives contestants
Speaker 1: the chance to win mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm
Speaker 1: your announcer, B and, in honor of all the classical
Speaker 1: music in today's episode, I'm gonna be sharp. And here's
Speaker 1: your host, the man who inspired the Oxford Comma. It's
Speaker 1: Elliott Kaylin. Thank you, be and welcome everyone to the
Speaker 1: WHO was podcast. This show is like jeopardy, only with
Speaker 1: surprise guests, silly games and better gift banks. Our contestants
Speaker 1: were sent who was books about two great figures from history.
Speaker 1: Now they're here to show off their knowledge in the
Speaker 1: hope sub winning fantastic prizes, prizes. Today we're staying classical
Speaker 1: when we discussed Prima Ballerina Maria tall chief and wonder
Speaker 1: kid composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But before we learn all
Speaker 1: about them, let's learn all about our contestants today. Alright.
Speaker 1: First up we have Grayson. Grayson, please introduce yourself. Hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Grayson one thing you should know about
Speaker 1: me is that I can nave all the U S
Speaker 1: presidents oral flies and say flies while I was five.
Speaker 1: Oh Wow. So Elliott has a lot of opinions about presidents. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to ask you, Grayson, who is your
Speaker 1: favorite president? My favorite presents probably Abraham Lincoln. Great President. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the best one. There's no there's no better ones
Speaker 1: than that. All right, and we also have on the
Speaker 1: show today Owen Owen, please introduce yourself. Hi, my name
Speaker 1: is Owen and Um, I love to play piano, just
Speaker 1: like Mozart. Oh my goodness. What's your favorite kind of
Speaker 1: music to play on the piano? Um, the classical, classical. Okay.
Speaker 1: And do you have a favorite composer within that? I don't.
Speaker 1: You like them all. What a classical answer? m M.
Speaker 1: probably like a probably billy, Joel. I'M gonna guess it's
Speaker 1: call your favorite classical composer on the piano. No, no, shaking, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't shaking heads. No, okay, I understand. Well, so
Speaker 1: there's a lot. There's a lot that our contestants have
Speaker 1: in common with our subjects today. That's amazing. Thank you
Speaker 1: both so much for being here I can't wait for
Speaker 1: this game and thank you to Eric, our musician, for
Speaker 1: providing that lovely live meet the contestants music. So that's
Speaker 1: who is. Now let's find out who was. Maria TAL
Speaker 1: chief with four fast facts. Maria Tul chief lived from to.
Speaker 1: Maria was America's first Prima Ballerina. Maria's father was part
Speaker 1: of the O sage nation and she grew up on
Speaker 1: the o sage reservation in Oklahoma. A statue of her
Speaker 1: and four other native American ballerinas, known as five moons,
Speaker 1: stands on Ancestral Muskogee land in Oklahoma prospects. Alright, so,
Speaker 1: graceon and Owen, we've talked a little bit about music,
Speaker 1: because Owen U is a piano player as well. Um,
Speaker 1: but I want to ask you what do you think
Speaker 1: about when you think about the ballet? Like, what is
Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to your mind when I
Speaker 1: say the Word Ballet? Owen, what do you think about?
Speaker 1: I think about performance, acting, all the stage stuff. I
Speaker 1: just ballerina just comes to me like a huge performance
Speaker 1: with like a bunch of dancers dancing like two twos.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a ballet? No, okay, and what
Speaker 1: about you? Grayson, have you ever seen a ballet before?
Speaker 1: I have. I saw the first half of the cracker.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, now, why only the first half? Because the
Speaker 1: place I was showing it was on only shows. It's
Speaker 1: a tradition. They only show the up two when the
Speaker 1: store of Clara shrinking and walking through the world trying
Speaker 1: all the fun creatures there. I didn't mean the prints.
Speaker 1: I see. And do they show you all the dances
Speaker 1: from the different countries that represent different candies? Because a
Speaker 1: lot of the second half of the nutcracker is just
Speaker 1: one dance after another. There's no story, it's just candy dances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's just there's a bunch of there was a lot
Speaker 1: of the scene before that was candies. So it sounds
Speaker 1: like it sounds like they played a fair amount of
Speaker 1: the nutcracker. They danced it. I my family growing up.
Speaker 1: We went to see the nutcracker at the New York
Speaker 1: City ballet every year at holiday time and I grew
Speaker 1: up really loving the ballet and I was always amazed
Speaker 1: at how the ballet dancers seems so graceful and when
Speaker 1: I tried it at home I would fall down a
Speaker 1: lot and make a lot of noise and they just
Speaker 1: seemed to not do that, so I always wondered how
Speaker 1: they did it. Yeah, but Elliott Um falling down a
Speaker 1: lot and making a lot of noise. That's like modern
Speaker 1: dance and that's the kind of thing. Yeah, so there
Speaker 1: is a place. There is a place for all kinds
Speaker 1: of dancers. Oh, that's fantastic. Well, finally I can live
Speaker 1: my dream of being a dancer falls down a lot,
Speaker 1: makes a lot of noise. That's the most inspiring episode
Speaker 1: of who was podcast? Yet I love it. Don't come
Speaker 1: for me, modern dancers. I know you're listening. Thank you
Speaker 1: for those, for those candid ballet opinions. I think it's
Speaker 1: time to move on to our first game. It's a
Speaker 1: ballet themed game. Because this is Maria Tal chief. It's
Speaker 1: called Swan fake. In this game, you will each have
Speaker 1: thirty seconds to get through as many true or false
Speaker 1: statements about Maria Tal chief as possible. If the statement
Speaker 1: B says about Maria's life is true, say firebird, after
Speaker 1: Maria's starmaking role in the ballet of the firebird. If
Speaker 1: it's fake, say Swan fake. Maria also danced in Swanley.
Speaker 1: If you don't know the answer, say pass which is
Speaker 1: a dance move, and then we'll move on. So if
Speaker 1: it's true, say firebird. If it's fake, say Swan, fake,
Speaker 1: and if you don't know and you just want to
Speaker 1: go the next one, say pass a. h okay, Elliott
Speaker 1: is going to time and producer Jane will keep score,
Speaker 1: and each answer you get correct is worth one point,
Speaker 1: because this is our first game. Okay, Grayson, Europe first.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Okay, alright, Elliott, get that time. Are
Speaker 1: Ready and let us know when to go. Okay, getting
Speaker 1: the time already, and on your mark, get set dance.
Speaker 1: Maria was named Princess of two worlds by the O
Speaker 1: s age nation. Sure, Maria was named woman of the
Speaker 1: Year in N Swan. Fake Maria was the choreographer Balanchine's goose. Swan. Fake.
Speaker 1: Maria famously at once asked dance legend Fredis stare. So
Speaker 1: you think you can dance? And that's thirty seconds. Nice job.
Speaker 1: You got through a lot of statements there. Okay, Owen,
Speaker 1: now it's your turn. I'm going to reset the timer. Okay,
Speaker 1: and remember, Owen, it's now it's your turn. On Your Mark,
Speaker 1: get set dance. Maria had a younger sister, Marjorie, who
Speaker 1: was also a dancer. Firebird Maria's father suffered from alcoholism.
Speaker 1: firebird Maria was also a talented musician. Fire Maria was
Speaker 1: the inspiration for the dream ballet in the musical Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Sat Fake Maria was a dancer in one of Judy
Speaker 1: Garland's movies. Um, firebird Maria was instrumental in establishing the
Speaker 1: New York City Ballet. And that's thirty seconds a right.
Speaker 1: Both of you were blazing through those answers, and that's
Speaker 1: the end of Swan fake. Thank you both so much
Speaker 1: for playing an incredible round. We'll have producer Jayne itally
Speaker 1: up the scores right after this short break. Erica, please
Speaker 1: play us some firebird music that birds on fire. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the WHO was podcast, where today we're finding
Speaker 1: out who was Maria Tal Cheese and who was Mozart.
Speaker 1: And now back to your host, Elliott Kalin. Thank you,
Speaker 1: be we just got through an exciting game between Grayson
Speaker 1: and Owen. Now let's dance over to producer Jane to
Speaker 1: find out the scores. Jane, Please, what are the scores?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Grayson got two points and then Owen sped
Speaker 1: ahead with five. Fantastic playing on both of you and
Speaker 1: noticed that I didn't make a musical pun off of
Speaker 1: the word scores. I think I deserved some credit for that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Elliot, for not doing that. And let's keep
Speaker 1: the show going as we find out who was Mozart
Speaker 1: with four fast facts. Facts. Mozart was born in seventeen
Speaker 1: fifty six and died in in Austria. Mozart started composing
Speaker 1: music at the age of five. He wrote over six
Speaker 1: hundred pieces of music. Mozart had a musical mind and
Speaker 1: could retain pieces of music even after hearing them only once.
Speaker 1: I know we were saying earlier. So, Grayson, you have memorized, Um,
Speaker 1: all of the presidents of the US, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like you and Mozart sort of have that in common,
Speaker 1: like having this like great um sort of memory. Um.
Speaker 1: But what comes to your mind when we say like
Speaker 1: Mozart or classical music? What do you what? What do
Speaker 1: you think of when we say that? Grayson, I think
Speaker 1: of this songs, Rondo, Turkey Piano Chart in twenty one.
Speaker 1: I don't know that. And what's the what's the what's
Speaker 1: the is there a particular classical song that you like,
Speaker 1: even not just to play but to listen to? No,
Speaker 1: I don't really like to classical music. So what kind
Speaker 1: of music do you like to listen to? You like
Speaker 1: to play classical but you like to listen to other music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of like country pop, like sort of stop.
Speaker 1: All right, who, who are your top artists? What about
Speaker 1: the most country pop person I've ever heard of, which
Speaker 1: is a Taylor Swift? Are you a swift? Eh? Yes, okay, Great.
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention there's two classical songs. There's one
Speaker 1: classic Song I listened to whenever I need to get
Speaker 1: really energized, and there's one classical song I listened to
Speaker 1: when I need to calm down. And the classical song
Speaker 1: I like, I listened to when I need to energize,
Speaker 1: is the twelve overture. You know it. It's one that
Speaker 1: goes that boom, that boom boom. There's real cannons in
Speaker 1: the song. It's bonkers. And then the song I need
Speaker 1: to listen to when I calm down is I listened
Speaker 1: to Venus by Gustav Holst, from the planet's symphony, and
Speaker 1: it's a very calm song and I like to listen
Speaker 1: to it at the end of the day when it's
Speaker 1: time for me to go to bed. and Venus is
Speaker 1: the gause of love, and soothe thinks exactly. So the
Speaker 1: songs makes sense. Jupiter is like big, it's like bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bomb, bump, bump, bomb,
Speaker 1: and Neptune, I don't know how that was. So I
Speaker 1: think the Nepton one is like under the sea. All right,
Speaker 1: we got keep moving because they're getting into copyright issues.
Speaker 1: Now let's get to know more about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Speaker 1: In this next game it's called Hashtag history, Hashtag, Hashtag, history, Hashtag, Hashtag.
Speaker 1: In this game we will read to a Hashtag Mozart
Speaker 1: would have used during his life if there were social
Speaker 1: media at the time, and you will tell us what's
Speaker 1: that Hashtag all about? What's that tweet all about? And
Speaker 1: because this is our second game, each question is worth
Speaker 1: two points. So, Owen, this first question is for you.
Speaker 1: You've heard of wordle but growing up, my family and
Speaker 1: I called my sister by this nickname. Hashtag, sister, sister, Hashtag.
Speaker 1: It's all relative. What was Mozart's sister's nickname? Was it
Speaker 1: a Naneral or be strue soul. I'm so sorry. The
Speaker 1: anser was a Nanaal Maria, Anna, Mozart's older sister, was
Speaker 1: also a musician. It's okay, there's lots more points opportunities
Speaker 1: coming up. She performed with Mozart when they were very young.
Speaker 1: She helped him notate his earliest symphonies and she composed
Speaker 1: her own music. But NANARAL was expected to get married
Speaker 1: and raised children, not pursue a career of her own.
Speaker 1: Eighteenth Century, the better eighteenth century. Next question is for Grayson.
Speaker 1: Take it away. Be met someone today. She's the queen
Speaker 1: of my heart. Hashtag woman crushed Wednesday. Hashtag. Let them
Speaker 1: eat wedding cake, Maria, they did. Let me, let me
Speaker 1: do the options. Yes, it was about raising you got it.
Speaker 1: The six year old Mozart was performing for the Queen
Speaker 1: of Hungary. A six year old Marie Antoinette helped him
Speaker 1: after he fell and he proclaimed he would marry her.
Speaker 1: This was hilarious to everyone there because at six she
Speaker 1: was already engaged to the future King of France, lose
Speaker 1: the sixteenth, and destined to be the next queen of France.
Speaker 1: You know, typical six year old stuff. Come on, eighteenth
Speaker 1: century next question. Let's go back to Owen. Records haven't
Speaker 1: been invented yet, but my father insists I go after
Speaker 1: those royalties. Hashtag will never be royals. Hashtag yes, Queen.
Speaker 1: Is this about a Mozart trying to be employed as
Speaker 1: a concert master in the court of a King or Prince?
Speaker 1: or Be Mozart spending too much money on wigs and clothing?
Speaker 1: That's right. The answer is a an artist like Mozart
Speaker 1: to make a living at that time he needed the
Speaker 1: help of wealthy patrons and the aristocracy. His father harked
Speaker 1: on the importance of this in his many letters to Mozart.
Speaker 1: It also brings up the idea of class distinction in
Speaker 1: the white male exclusivity associated with classical music. It's a
Speaker 1: topic we'd love one of our listeners to do a
Speaker 1: ten part podcast about. I would love to listen to it.
Speaker 1: Please put it out there. And this last question is
Speaker 1: for Grayson. You're invited to the wedding. A lot of
Speaker 1: wedding singers, but no bocae Toss Hashtag wedding craft shirts.
Speaker 1: HASHTAG romantic overtures. Is this tweet referring to a Mozart's
Speaker 1: marriage to his wife Costanza or be his hit opera,
Speaker 1: the marriage of Figaro. There is a Figaro. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's the marriage of figure it's a huge success for
Speaker 1: Mozart helped him establish his name as a musician. He
Speaker 1: went on to write three other beloved operas before his
Speaker 1: death at just thirty five. You know, the opening of
Speaker 1: Marrija Figro is very famous. It goes like this. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, Bravo, Bravo, Elliott, you're a tenor. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that performance was more of a twelve, if I'm
Speaker 1: being honest. Okay, I like. I like the magic flu.
Speaker 1: Al Baldo's essay. The magic flu was also a beautiful opera.
Speaker 1: Amazing job to both of our contestants. You did great
Speaker 1: at Hashtag history, history, and now let's go to producer
Speaker 1: chain with the musical scores. That's it, I did it.
Speaker 1: I made a musical score joke. I couldn't resist. I'm sorry. Wow. Well,
Speaker 1: Owen has seven, but Grayson is sliding right up behind
Speaker 1: the six points. This game is so close. Thank you, Jane.
Speaker 1: And now, before we move on to our final game,
Speaker 1: we have a very special guest. It's America's own Prima
Speaker 1: Bell Rena, herself Maria Tulchief. Hello, I'm thank you for
Speaker 1: having me. Of course, Maria joined us via the WHO
Speaker 1: was that? That's right, I took the liberty of choreographing
Speaker 1: a dance to the jingle. May I perform it? That
Speaker 1: would be incredible. A five, six, seven, twelve. Who was
Speaker 1: wandering in the first Oh wow, that was beautiful. Elliott,
Speaker 1: are you crying a little bit? I have that effect
Speaker 1: on people. I heard the former leader of the USSR,
Speaker 1: Chrius Cheff, wept when he watched me perform in the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union in the nineteen fifties. We have no way
Speaker 1: to verify, but that tracks. Maria, love brings you here today.
Speaker 1: You all have so much fun playing games on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I brought a game of my own to share. It's
Speaker 1: called rounds of applause. Sounds Fun. Yes, B was supposed
Speaker 1: to tell you about it so you could prepare. Wait beat.
Speaker 1: What cool, Elliott. It'll be fun. I love dancing and
Speaker 1: I love the applause that tame with it. I became
Speaker 1: something of an applause expert and can recognize where applause
Speaker 1: is from when I hear it. So in this game,
Speaker 1: B will play applause and Elliott and I will try
Speaker 1: to name what it's from. Nobody, nobody doesn't not want
Speaker 1: to hear this game. Let's go. Maria's up first. Here
Speaker 1: is your round of applause. That's a golf clack. I
Speaker 1: think it's from the seventy masters, where Jack Nicklaus won
Speaker 1: his thirteenth major title. Correct, Elliott. This next round is
Speaker 1: for you. This feels unfair. Uh, is that from like
Speaker 1: the musical wicked? Wrong, I'm going to steal. That's when
Speaker 1: I danced the sugar pump ferry from the nutcracker at
Speaker 1: the Bullshoy theater in nineteen sixty. I was the first
Speaker 1: American to dance at the Bullshoy, which is Russia's most
Speaker 1: prestigious theater. Correct, Maria to this next round of applause
Speaker 1: is for you. That's from Elliott's high school play. You
Speaker 1: can detect just a hint of resentment from the audience
Speaker 1: for having to pretend he did a good job as
Speaker 1: Danny Zuko in Greece. I did do a good job, Maria,
Speaker 1: is correct. My Mom said I did a good job. Okay,
Speaker 1: last round of applause is for Elliott. Uh. Is it
Speaker 1: from the musical wicked? Nope, Maria, for this deal. Dancers
Speaker 1: will often perform short scenes from ballets at dance shows.
Speaker 1: That applause was from when I danced pizzicato from the
Speaker 1: ballet is Sylvia at Jacob's pill dance theater. Correct. Wow.
Speaker 1: That's the end of round of applause and now to
Speaker 1: producer Jane with the scores. What Jane? You knew about
Speaker 1: this too. That's right, Elliott in the biggest victory we've
Speaker 1: ever seen on who was. It's Maria with four points,
Speaker 1: Elliott with zero. Oh my, that was marvelous. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having me and things again. who was up? Well,
Speaker 1: I'M gonna go try and recover from that defeat and
Speaker 1: we'll be back with the final game after this short break. Eric,
Speaker 1: can you please play us some surprise me with a game.
Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for music. Jum Sally, who was asked
Speaker 1: same one. Marie Curie. You may remember me from winning
Speaker 1: multiple Nobel Prizes, or perhaps from my episode of the
Speaker 1: WHO worst podcast where I played myself. I wanted to
Speaker 1: take a moment to read one of my favorite reviews
Speaker 1: about the WHO was podcast. This is from Shaken Bay
Speaker 1: and it reads loved this. Me and my little sister
Speaker 1: love this show more, please. Our faith is Arie Toman.
Speaker 1: If you want to hear your review right on the air,
Speaker 1: make sure to subscribe, like and review to the worst
Speaker 1: podcast in the I heart radio up or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. REVOIR, or should I stay Abbia? We're
Speaker 1: back on the WHO was podcast. When we last left,
Speaker 1: Brason had six points and Owen had seven points. And
Speaker 1: now back to your host, Elliott Daylen. Thank you me.
Speaker 1: It's a close game. Let's see what happened in this,
Speaker 1: our last game. It's called converge of greatness. What beautiful music.
Speaker 1: I think Mozart wrote that. No, was Eric. In this
Speaker 1: multiple choice game we'll explore how the lives of Maria
Speaker 1: Tal chief and Mozart connect, overlap or converge. And because
Speaker 1: we're in the third round, each question is worth three points. Ready,
Speaker 1: the first question goes to Grayson B. Take it away.
Speaker 1: Both Maria Tal Chief and Mozart had important relationships with artists.
Speaker 1: Maria and the choreographer George Balanchine were life and artistic
Speaker 1: partners and created the New York City Ballet. Mozart was
Speaker 1: friendly with this classical composer. Was it a Johann Sebastian Bach? B,
Speaker 1: Joseph Hyden or C A DUA LIPA? That's right, the
Speaker 1: answer is be. The composer Joseph Hayden was a mentor
Speaker 1: and friend to young most art, and Mozart dedicated six
Speaker 1: quartets to him. You know, my favorite hide and Quartet
Speaker 1: is the hide and go seek. Yes, we did it,
Speaker 1: we did it. We made a hide and joke. Okay.
Speaker 1: The next question is for Owen. Mozart and Maria both
Speaker 1: had close calls with their health at different points in
Speaker 1: their lives. While Mozart was able to recover from smallpox,
Speaker 1: Maria almost missed her big debut due to this illness.
Speaker 1: Is it a infected tonsils, b Shin splints or see
Speaker 1: dance fever? Hey, that's right, the answer is A. Maria
Speaker 1: almost missed her debut in the firebird because she was
Speaker 1: very sick. She had to have her tonsils removed and
Speaker 1: had only two days rest before she took the stage
Speaker 1: and brought down the house with her incredible tonsilness performance.
Speaker 1: Next question Grayson. Maria's relationship with her father was complicated.
Speaker 1: She says she idolized him in many ways, but his
Speaker 1: alcoholism made him unreliable. Bol Mozart also had a difficult
Speaker 1: relationship with his father Leopold, and much of their correspondence
Speaker 1: focuses around this issue. A Leopold's wish that Mozart give
Speaker 1: up music and get a real job, B leobold begging
Speaker 1: Mozart to put him in an opera or see. Leopold
Speaker 1: was upset with Mozart over the way he spent money.
Speaker 1: It's I guess in it's money. That's right. The answer
Speaker 1: is seeing. Leopold was very supportive of Mozart having a
Speaker 1: career in music and taught him how to play instruments,
Speaker 1: but he was him quote, not mad, but disappointed, unquote,
Speaker 1: at the choices Mozart made with his money. Maybe Mozart
Speaker 1: should have listen to his dad a little bit. At
Speaker 1: the time of his death, he was very deep in debt.
Speaker 1: And now it's time for the last question. This is
Speaker 1: for Owen. Mozart wrote the fantasy like opera the magic flute,
Speaker 1: where the hero of the story is given a magic
Speaker 1: flute to help him on his quest. In the firebird
Speaker 1: Maria danced the part of a fire a bird who
Speaker 1: tells a young man she will help him if he
Speaker 1: calls her using this magical object. Is it a a
Speaker 1: messenger bird, be a super sick muscle car or see
Speaker 1: a magic feather? Um, let's see the magic feather. The
Speaker 1: answer yes, it's see a magic feather. The story of
Speaker 1: the firebird is based on a Russian folk tale, but,
Speaker 1: unlike many other operas at the time, the magic flute
Speaker 1: was not based on a pretty existing story, but a
Speaker 1: collaboration between Mozart and an Austrian theatrical troupe, a lot
Speaker 1: of cooks in dust kitchen, which may explain why the
Speaker 1: story of magic flute is charmingly bonkers. And speaking of Bonkers,
Speaker 1: can you believe that was the final game? Like all
Speaker 1: great ballets and symphonies, our show must at last come
Speaker 1: to an end, to a standing ovation. Oh thank you, everybody.
Speaker 1: Sit down. Sit Down, you don't need to do well,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit. Okay, let's find sit down. But first,
Speaker 1: while producer Jane Tally's our all scores, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear from our contestants. Uh Owen Grayson, is there something
Speaker 1: that you found out about Maria Tal chief or Mozart
Speaker 1: that really surprised you? Um, something that stuck out to
Speaker 1: me about Murray Tal chief was her loved ones just
Speaker 1: kept dying and then like ten years later, after her
Speaker 1: divorced husband died, then she died herself. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: sad how often people can achieve great things and yet
Speaker 1: have such tragedy in their personal lives and they have
Speaker 1: to push through it, I guess, and you know you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't dance out of sadness, although I guess it's
Speaker 1: ballet you kind of can. I mean a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of ballets are about tragic subjects. Uh, maybe
Speaker 1: you know she brought that into her work. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hate to spoilers for everyone listening. He hasn't Seen Swan Lake.
Speaker 1: Things do not work out great for the Swan what.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Jane, I didn't want you to find out
Speaker 1: this way. Grayson, was there anything that stuck out to
Speaker 1: you particularly about Mozart, or Ria Tal Chief, something that
Speaker 1: you'd like to talk about? Well, I was, Willie, interested
Speaker 1: that the fact that, uh, for the anniversary of Navave
Speaker 1: and they played the modes are for four Um for
Speaker 1: twy four hours. Yeah, it's amazing how Mozart wrote that Song,
Speaker 1: you know, hundreds of years ago, but it's still it's
Speaker 1: still so powerful that it still affects people and it
Speaker 1: can still speak to us when things happen in modern times.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the power of great art, is that
Speaker 1: even if it's written in one time, it kind of
Speaker 1: lives on forever and it still makes people laugh or cry,
Speaker 1: or cry from laughter or dance or maybe sit down
Speaker 1: and say that's interesting. Lots of different reactions, I guess. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a word, timeless. Yes, timeless. That's a great one
Speaker 1: word way to say what I was saying. With lots
Speaker 1: of words be you've shown me up again. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you both so much for sharing your thoughts with us.
Speaker 1: Those are great. And now it's time for the big moment. Jane,
Speaker 1: Please announced our winner. Well, it was a squeaker, isn't that?
Speaker 1: Isn't that what a Mozart's lesser known symphonies? Squeaker, the squeaker. Yes, squeaker.
Speaker 1: Cohen had thirteen points and Grayson right behind them with twelve. Ohen,
Speaker 1: you've won. What a close game. You've both played amazingly well. Congratulations, Oh,
Speaker 1: and on your victory, and this one you have ten
Speaker 1: seconds for shout out. Still for it. Who would you
Speaker 1: like to thank today? Um, I would like to thank
Speaker 1: my parents, for setting you up with this whole podcast.
Speaker 1: I didn't think of doing it, but they pushed me
Speaker 1: to do it, so I'd like to thank them. That's
Speaker 1: very nice. Thank you, parents for pushing your children. Our
Speaker 1: winner and their library of choice will be receiving a
Speaker 1: selection of who was books, and I'm going to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to intern Zach, to Jane, to Eric
Speaker 1: and be and a big thank you to both of
Speaker 1: our contestants, who played an amazing game. Thank you at home.
Speaker 1: So much for listening. Next week join us as we
Speaker 1: find out about two more amazing people from history. Until then,
Speaker 1: this is Elliott Amadeus Klin saying we are history. Thank you. Goodbye, everybody.
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