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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2006/09
From: "Jennifer I. Paull" <info@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Quiet
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:23:41 -0400
OK, you asked for it :-)
Sorry Harold about Stravinsky and V-L,
Back to watching Agassi (the only sport I love),
Jennifer
"He'd be better off shoveling snow" - Richard Strauss on Arnold
Schoenberg.
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
"His music used to be original. Now it's aboriginal."
- Sir Ernest Newman on Igor Stravinsky
"If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been
better for music."
- Maurice Ravel on Camille Saint-Saens
"He has an enormously wide repertory. He can conduct anything, provided
it's by Beethoven, Brahms or Wagner. He tried Debussy's La Mer once. It
came out as Das Merde."
- Anonymous Orchestra Member on George Szell
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.
"After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and
I won't let any of you enter."
- Arturo Toscanini to the NBC Orchestra
"We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could
be good enough to keep in touch now and again."
- Sir Thomas Beecham to a musician during a rehearsal
"Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night. Mendelssohn lost."
- Anonymous
The great German conductor Hans von Bulow detested two members of an
orchestra, who were named Schultz and Schmidt. Upon being told that
Schmidt had died, von Buelow immediately asked, "Und Schultz?"
"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 Rake's Progress'
"Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on."
- Sir Thomas Beecham on an unidentified soprano in Die Walkyre
" Is Rooseveldt still president?" Marcel Tabuteau on climbing out of
the pit
after a particularly drawn out Parsifal.
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Dr. Jennifer I. Paull
Musician, Author, Publisher
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
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