clamav-milter version 0.81b on buphy.bu.edu Status: O Bernard Chasan wrote: >>..., I can tell Mr. Peters that he can no more hear vanity in >>the music than he can paint the air. Robert Peters replies: >Bernard, what about discussing without becoming insulting? I actually >hear vanity in Liszts music as I hear sadness in Beethoven`s Moonlight >Sonata, jollity in some of Rossinis aria, hatred in Mozarts La vendetta-aria >and Verdis Iago-arias, grace in Botticelli`s String Quintet and so on. >(And by the way, And Robert indeed deserves an apology, which I now offer. This whole Strauss- Liszt business generated way more heat than light. We all have our individual tastes, but I would echo Steve's point that we should judge composers when they are at their best. For me Liszt's best is the late piano music and the Schubert settings. >I am a poor painter but I reommend Turner as someone who actually could >paint air. As an amateur painter and an enthusiast for Turner I accept his interesting interpretation of painting air. I have now have said all that I intend to say about the infamous Musical Quotations 9. Bernard Chasan