Not Dvorak Symphony #8 ........... But #9
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!!!Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
That William Barrington Coupe,
Whose conduct was always unscrup
ulous, tried to place Joyce
As the pianist of choice;
There were no depths to which he'd not stoop.
He purloined and he nicked and he stole
From most pianists, for this was his goal -
To assemble a gâteau
And call it Joyce Hatto
Thus firming his principal rôle.
It all went so well for some years,
Deceiving the sharpest of ears
With illicit Tchaikovsky
Liszt, Messiaen, Godowsky
To put Joyce up there with her "peers".
But eventually he got caught.
Then their false reputations were naught,
For once he'd been rumbled
His edifice tumbled
And folks realised what he'd wrought.
'Tis a lesson of sorts to us all
That such false pride precedes a great fall
And whatever it takes
To contrive such great fakes
Will eventually go to the wall.
What was it that Schumann is said to have exclaimed about Chopin in his presence? Ah, yes; "Hatto's off, gentlemen - a genius!"
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