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ALSO AT THE SCHOENBERG/BERG/WEBERN SCANDAL
@jasonweinberger
“If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.”
Hell, I’ll take it.
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Thought of the day
“Instead of asking ‘Is it right?’ we are tempted to ask ‘Will it pay?’ and ‘Will it win?’ As a result the public conscience is becoming seared and the public service debauched.”
— William Jennings Bryan, “The Value of an Ideal,” 1901
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Viola da gamba
Bass after Salomon (Paris, 18th C.)
by Petr Vavrous, Prague, 1999
FBI tries to stop “Louie Louie”