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...band members agreed that the opportunities for a band of women were neither better nor worse than those for men in the music business. But they did remark that their competence was more often questioned because they are women...
...nightie and granny capteasing a bachelor professor with a long pink velvet ribbon) and splendid one-liners. The last word on the Humanities perhaps belongs to a physiology professor, tipsy at the close of a long-winded faculty dinner. In response to the essential orthodox remark that the Humanities are, after all, about Civilization, he begins to lecture...
...blues, folk, and rock. Bur tradition and form are as essential to our music as radical experimentation; no music can possibly escape the culture from which is emerges. Rockwell's discussion of serialism--a non-traditional musical system championed by Arnoid Schoenberg--is prefaced by the revealing remark. "But it was serialism more than populism that impeded the evolution of truly American music." Rockwell can't decide which side he is on, the side of serialist Milton Babbitt of Princeton--who once wrote an essay entitled. "Who; Cares if You Listen?"--or the avowedly populist Elliott Carter--whom he accuses...
...prime of life, isn't it wonderful. Lose 10 Ibs., I'll be better than ever.' You always have to doubt yourself. The only security I ever feel is that I won't turn pious. But that's a dangerous remark to make, because the devil's always listening...
...DIDN'T KNOW Mozart was a person: I thought it was just another name for music," the six-year-old girl who made this remark summed up the phenomenon of Mozart better then all the superlatives that have been used to elevate the man's achievement. The business of finding Mozart "the person"--looking for the musician behind the music, making sense out of the limited store of facts and rumors--has occupied countless biographers over the years. And it is undoubtedly a formidable task to get the measure of a man whom Wolfgang Hildesheimer, the latest to make...