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...cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting, which end in travesty. The films of Hamlet, Wuthering Heights or David Copperfield are obvious examples of one kind of demolition...To see the works of the Impressionists twisted into backgrounds for advertising perfume; to hear the melodies of Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Chopin re-handled by Tin Pan Alley; to listen to absent-minded hacks giving the lowdown on high art...all this is destructive in the same measure that it is communicative...
Cornucopious. The very bulk of the output kills appetite, Barzun writes. "Symphonies in bars and cabs, classical drama on television any day of the week, highbrow paperbacks in mountainous profusion (easier to buy than to read), 'art seminars in the home,' capsule operas, 'Chopin by Starlight.' 'The Sound of Wagner,' 'The Best of World Literature'; this cornucopia thrust at the inexperienced and pouring out its contents over us all deadens attention and keeps taste stillborn, like any form of gross feeding. Too much art in too many places means art robbed...
...performing a "Dance of Joy" under eucalyptus trees, saw a three-hour parade that included 2,000 extra men drafted into the Ivory Coast army just for the occasion. At dinner, the guests sat on gold chairs, ate to the luxurious clatter of gold knives and forks, listened to Chopin on hifi...
Expertly supported by Conductor Vladimir Golschmann, Cliburn shaped a characteristic performance-simple, water-clear, eloquent in every detail. And it brought an ovation. As the orchestra was packing its instruments, Cliburn reappeared to play an encore-Chopin's A-flat Polonaise. Then another, Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableau. The orchestra left for the night, but the audience stayed on. Cliburn played Albéniz' Eritaña. He walked offstage and came back again, smiling and bowing. At last he stole a look at the piano, walked over to it. put a hand on it and-to another...
...whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin mazurka, he fainted dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials in between the musical selections on its cylinders, forcing the listener who bought the Chirp, Chirp polka to endure a sales pitch for men's overcoats. Columbia, also in those early days, considered the phonograph...