Doublereed Archive - Posting 000058.txt from 2004/07

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:41:23 -0400


Shostakovich: What do you think of Puccini?
Britten: I think his operas are dreadful.
Shostakovich: No, Ben, you are wrong. He wrote marvelous operas, but dreadful
music.

-Quoted in Lord Harewood, The Tongs and the Bones (1981)

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