Donald Satz 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"? In the opening of Chapter 13 of Hofstadter's *Le Ton beau de Marot* there appears the following dialogue that one might "easily overhear in any big city or university town: He: Did you hear--Vladimir Horowitz is in town, and is giving a recital on Saturday! She: Oh, wow--let's go! Say, what's he playing? He: Don't have the foggiest. It didn't say, on the poster I saw. But it'll be great. Horowitz always is. She: Ah, Horowitz--what a pianist! I could listen to him play forever!" Walter Meyer