Things Composers Never Said

[vinteuil]

Tut tut - the only dirty bit I recall is the whether the appendage was over the window sill case !

... did he enter or not?

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/1972/1.html

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[Barbirollians]

That's the one .

[Serial_Apologist]

You're welcome to her, pal - Alexander Zemlinsky

[Lat-Literal]

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four?"

Federico Mompou who married for the first time at that age.

[Barbirollians]

Italy ! cannot stand the place - Walton

Let's go to Majorca again - so good for one's health - Chopin

[zola]

All of the best songs were actually written by John - Paul McCartney

[french frank]

I think we need a little more forte from the piano here, Mr Tudor. J. Cage

[ahinton]

(On hearing the première of Appalachian Spring) "Another uncomplicated piece by Copland; can't think why there are so many scratches on our dining room table, though": Elliott Carter, early 1940s

"Must write a guitar concerto so that I'll be taken more seriously": H Berlioz

[Barbirollians]

My work is just too difficult and uncompromisingly atonal for listeners to appreciate - Eric Whitacre.

[Lat-Literal]

"I've never been to Titsey and don't even know where it is - why the hell should I want to be buried there?"

Frederick Delius

"Brian who?"

Peter Warlock

[ahinton]

My work is just too difficult and uncompromisingly atonal for listeners to appreciate - Eric Whitacre.

...or maybe even "when my commanding officer asked if I was "this notorious Whitacre, then?", I replied "beg to report, sir, yes; nobody wanted to be, someone had to be, so I let it be me""...

"I loathe dogs; whever I see one, I feel an urge to mount my bicycle and run it over": Edward Elgar

"My greatest regrets in life are that I have neither been knighted nor made Master of the Queen's Musick": Alan Bush

"Even those who know that I'm Lancashire born cannot seem to understand that I feel truly English at heart": Ronald Stevenson

"They call me 'the Russian Schönberg'; what do they call Schönberg, then?": Nick Roslavets

[Historian]

...or maybe even "when my commanding officer asked if I was "this notorious Whitacre, then?", I replied "beg to report, sir, yes; nobody wanted to be, someone had to be, so I let it be me""...

Is that from the Good Soldier Svejk?

[mercia]

dear diary, yesterday visited the Sistine Chapel ..... can't remember a darned thing about it ....... - W A Mozart

[P. G. Tipps]

'Hello, sailor ... ' ... Tchaikovsky (to Rimsky-Korsakov)

[EdgeleyRob]

'At home in Poland I was blessed to have lived a wonderful, free-wheeling life under the benign watch of both the Nazis and Communists, though, sadly, my intended solo piano career was halted in an accidental bombing raid, and so I turned to composing and conducting.

Later, after I accepted the conducting post at the Halle, a kindly colleague suggested that taking the short train trip to Edgeley Park to watch the amazing Stockport County FC was one of life's truly memorable experiences, right up there with the pure, unalloyed joy of performing Mahler or Brahms.

My goodness, how right he was! Standing almost alone behind the away goal on those delightfully soggy terraces, the famously cooling Mancunian drizzle omnipresent, and observing the ball soaring past my head on numerous occasions was an unique experience and certainly one which I'll never, ever forget.

Stuff Bruckner ... '

Stanisław Skrowaczewski

Oh yes ! Brings back memories.
I remember a cold,wet Tuesday night in 1983 (Doncaster in the cup)
Stan pipes up "y'know Rob,I'd much rather be conducting those marvellous George Lloyd symphonies.Them buggers at the Halle are 'avin none of it.All they want is Brahms Brahms and more Brahms......OI REF....YOU'RE 'AVIN A LAFF"