---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment << We thought this worth sending. "After playing the violin for the cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Albert Einstein asked, "Did I play well?" "You played relatively well," replied Piatigorsky. "Harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune." -- Igor Stravinsky When told that a soloist would need six fingers to perform his concerto, Arnold Schoenberg replied, "I can wait." "I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony." -- James Sellars "Exit in case of Brahms." -- Philip Hale's proposed inscription over the doors of Boston Symphony Hall "Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?" -- Igor Stravinsky Someone commented to Rudolph Bing, manager of the Metropolitan Opera, that "George Szell is his own worst enemy." "Not while I'm alive, he isn't!" said Bing. "Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed." -- Ralph Novak on Yoko Ono "Parsifal-the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20." -- David Randolph "One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time." -- Gioacchino Rossini "I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music." -- Benjamin Britten on Stravinsky's The Rakes's Progress >> ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Ted Beattie <bt49@juno.com> Subject: Fw: FW: Gravy Classical Music Criticism Selection Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:27:49 -0600 Size: 3499 Url: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/37/74/72/03/attachment.eml ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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