Date: |
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 12:33:45 -0000 |
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
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
[log in to unmask]
|
|
|