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Re: Schumann vs. Mendelssohn
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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 3 Dec 1999 00:47:48 -0500
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Donald Satz wrote:

>These are easy choices to make.  Now, Sophie of "Sophie's Choice", had a
>very hard choice to make which makes our choices between composers a snap.
>Truman had a difficult choice to make as well.

My college room mate of about 50 years ago, asked which he preferred,
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos or Handels Concerti Grossi, Op.  6, said,
"Easy.  Handel's Concerti Grossi.  There are 12 of them and only 6 of the
Brandenburgs."

Walter Meyer

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