Donald Satz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>The composer Ned Rorem provided an article in a recent Gramophone.  I found
>some of his statements very interesting:
>
>"The performer has become the star - the recreator is more important
>than the creator.  Itzhak Perlman lives across the street from me -
>he seems very imperious and self-satisfied and not an adventurous
>performer - but he makes in one evening what I make in five years."
>
>Do you think there's something wrong with this situation, or is Rorem just
>having a case of "sour grapes"?

While it may be sour grapes - I personally am not familiar with any of his
music - there certainly is a problem when "star" performers earn many times
what others of equal talent can.

Deryk Barker
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