Don Satz:

>I don't recall the source, but I read many years ago that Reger supposedly
>never shed a tear when playing or listening to music - that's my kind of
>guy.  This crying penchant over music is something I never understood.

Well, music can be emotional and the morally weak among us have been known
to respond.  Such ignoble reactions can be produced by "Das Lied von der
Erde" and by Mitsuko Shirai singing anything at all but particularly Hugo
Wolf.  There are twelve step programs for wretches who do this stuff.

Bernard Chasan