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Musical Fun - NastiesHe was the nearest thing to a clarinetist without actually being one. From the moment I held your CD till the moment I put it down, I was totally impressed. One day, I intend to listen to it. The nice thing about life is that there is no background music. This is not a CD that should be tossed aside easily. It should be thrown out with great force. This soprano has great talent. She should go far. Very very far. Before playing the sonata, the pianist should have listened to himself playing it. He has two hands? He also has two ears. The worst feature of a new born baby is its mother's singing. It is hard to believe this conductor beat other 9,999,999 sperms. They made that chin rest too comfortable for the violinist. He went to sleep in the middle of the piece. It was halfway through the concert when I realized that this pianist actually has one left and one right hand. Some sopranos are alive only because it is illegal to kill them. No wonder the orchestra could not keep the beat, they take after their parents who also could not keep the beat when using the rhythm method of contraception. After Act II in Carmen, the audience rushed back to their seats as they did not want to miss the intermission. "He'd be better off shoveling snow." Richard Strauss about 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 "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 about 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 Buelow 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 Go back to the Musical Fun Page
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