Pablo Massa ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Steve Schwartz: > >>Well, to check out how well Tovey understood other composers, check out >>his writings on Brahms, Beethoven, Wagner, Bruckner, Schumann, Schubert, >>Mozart, Haydn, etc., as well as his articles in Grove. > >Oh, Tovey was a fine critic, indeed. And, apparently, possessed of a fearsome memory. He could sit down at then piano and play just about any piece anyone nominated - and from the place the discussion concerned too. According to Abram Chasins, when Enescu, a man of legendary memory, heard Tovey's name "he just crossed himself". Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]