More Thoughts on Beethoven
“You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.” — Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a […]
“You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.” — Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a […]
I had the distinct pleasure (yes, pleasure!) of researching and writing a brief college paper on a topic of great fascination. (This, […]
“When I was a young fellow I used to think that philosophers were people who said little, seldom laughed, and turned a […]
“His Majesty does not know what the band has just played, but it is never to be played again.” – George V […]
(Update: Check out this great video of Itzhak Perlman talking about his bowhold!… And, watch a video of me teaching a Basic […]
Pianist Arthur Schnabel and physicist Albert Einstein, who was a fairly good violinist, were playing a Mozart sonata. Einstein became hopelessly lost […]