Subject: | |
From: | |
Date: | Thu, 1 Apr 1999 22:22:35 +0200 |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Mark Shanks [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Jon Johanning writes:
>
>>Seriously, though, the neglect of Pettersson on these shores is pathetic.
>
>I couldn't agree more.
I agree also.
>... Here is a classic Horatio Alger story - the son of an alcoholic
>wife-beater who buys his first violin with money from selling postcards,
Nope, he gave water to horses, earning 5 oere (an obolus) at the time.
>works his way through an elitist school,
Nope, no elitist school for Pettersson.
>wins the Jenny Lind prize, composes 16 large-scale symphonies, and goes
>on to international, uh, neglect. Hmmm.
"So is the fucking life for a kuli" Pettersson had said it himself.
James Zehm <[log in to unmask]>
|
|
|