Dave Stewart:

>What a stupid thing to do!  What is the point in arranging something for a
>medium which only augments the experience the person playing it?

people were so stupid.  They hadn't even invented the gramophone!!!  There
was this weird guy, Hector Berlioz, who wrote really weird and difficult
music for gigantic orchestras.  His weird pal, Franz Liszt, wrote really
weird and difficult music for the piano. Franz admired Hector's music so
he arranged two of his symphonies for piano. Hector thought it was a good
idea, and he even he agreed that musical material from his "Lelio" could be
used for a new piano concerto that Franz intended to write.  Later, when
Franz played his arrangement of the fourth movement of the Fantastique, the
piano was sounding like a full-scale orchestra, according to Hector.

Mikael
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