Don Satz' comment on his Liszt-list:

>I don't find every single part of each of these works to be disliked, but
>my overall feelings about them are in that range.  But, I'm a young guy
>with about 50 years left in me.  There's always the chance of a Satz-Liszt
>alliance smiting all the Crones in the land.

I've also got about 50 years left and I hope to get tuned in on Mozart.
Unfortunately, it's going in the wrong direction at the moment.

>There's some history to this Liszt business.  My dad was a highly
>histrionic type who had a penchant for exhibitionism - would YOU want to
>live with this man? Anyways, he salivated over romantic era composers, and
>boy did I hear it, and hear it, and hear it.  One year I think that he had
>the notion he was related to Liszt; even my mom who was the "grin and bear
>it" type felt compelled to inform him that he was driving us nuts and his
>last name was *Satz*.  The guy snapped out of it in time to move on to his
>next obsession.

Being a Lisztian with an (never-ending?) obsession, I can say that I don't
recognise myself (fortunately) in the above description of your father.  By
the way, my father loved Mozart and violin concertos.  I avoided violin
concertos (the war horses) for a number years but I now I can listen to
them again with pleasure.

Mikael
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