Hello and welcome to this episode of Chronicles, where today we're going to be talking all about

Amadeus by Peter Schaffer.

And here to talk about this magical world of opera and music is not necessarily a court composer,

but he is a thought composer.

It's Josh Firm.

Hi, Josh. What an introduction for my Chronicles debut.

No, thanks for being here, man.

It's going to be a good one to talk about.

So some of you in the audience may know me.

I should bloody well hope so.

Yeah, I'm introducing you to the audience.

But you might be saying,

what does Josh know about high culture

other than, you know, sounding a little bit middle class?

And occasionally shooting pheasants.

If only.

Alas, I live in Central Swindon, so it will be more peasants and pheasants, but that's not an admission of guilt, by the way.

So, yes, obviously, I don't necessarily have a background in classical opera or classical

music.

However, I am a musician that also listens to music that is classical in nature.

And believe it or not, before reading the play and watching the film, which by the way,

top five films all the time for me.

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