In this short scene, the piano player and his mother discuss the performance of Mozart's "The Magic Flute," which they have just heard. The piano player laments the fact that he cannot play the music with his mother because she is away at war. He also laments that he has to play with a madman who has never seen the music. The madman, he says, is trying to "power through" the music so that he can escape from the "five - line cage" of his mother's house. He is also upset that the madman has not been able to play the "crazy violin" that Mozart has ordered him to play. He feels that Mozart is telling them to "go ahead and embarrasses our selves" and that he is speaking to them from heaven. He tells them to get ready to "barrass" their selves and to "throw me around" like a "roller-coaster" .