RE: JDS & Beethoven
Diego M. Dell'Era (dellerad@sinectis.com.ar)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:34:08 -0300
The quote is: "(...) as close to pleasing from start to finish -for a
good many of us, anyway- as, say, the bulk of Beethoven's output
after he ceased being encumbered with a sense of hearing, and maybe
I'm thinking especially, though it seems a trifle picky, of the B-flat-
major and C-sharp-minor quartets." (_SAI_ p. 110, in the white &
rainbow edition). Buddy was comparing it to Seymour's non-stop
monologues.
Consider Ralph Vaughan Williams' words in a conversation some
two weeks before his death in 1958: "But in the next world I shan't
be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be
being it"