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"?

Don Satz
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