CARSON (quickly): That's all right. That doesn't matter. Your taste reveals your musical premises.
KEITH (puzzled): Oh? Well, I like Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, the standard …
GRETA: Oh!
CARSON: Keith, how could you? I, who know the depth of depravity to which most men sink, even I have to ask myself, how can they? Beethoven, Mozart, who reek of naturalism, whose whole work tramples on values, whose every note displays the malevolent universe premise.
KEITH (stunned): Malev … ?
CARSON: Oh, Keith, can't you see the hatred of life in every bar of their music?
Via the Mises Economics Blog [1], “Mozart was a Red [2]”
I do like a good satire.
About a decade ago I read Atlas Shrugged [3] because a friend of mine became enamored with her works and I wanted to understand what exactly happened to him (it was an okay book but could have seriously been edited (A quick synopsis of Atlas Shrugged) [4]). But the more I read about Ayn Rand and Objectivism, the more silly it became [5] (and like any good religion, it split—into the Peikoffian and Kelleyist camps—and I am not making that up).
And what's with Ayn Rand's lucky gold watch [6]?
Anyway, the one act play Mozart was a Red [7] is quite the amusing read, especially if you know Ayn Rand and Objectivist history.
[1] http://blog.mises.org/blog/archives/003077.asp
[2] http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/mozart.html
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451191145/conmanlaborat-
[5] http://www.jeffcomp.com/faq/wrong.html#dishonest
[6] http://home.att.net/~storytellers/sewrfaq1.html