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Re: Britten Anniversary
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Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Dec 2001 00:17:39 -0500
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Steve Schwartz on Handel as an English composer:

>....  Handel is as English as Stravinsky is American.  Handel merely made
>money off of the English.

If Steve is serious, this is a a remarkably cold and cynical way of summing
up a the creative life of a master.  Handel gave full value, after all.

Bernard Chasan

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