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Donald Satz wrote:
>The composer Ned Rorem provided an article in a recent Gramophone. I found
>some of his statements very interesting:
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>"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."
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>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
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