On Jul 12, 2010, at 9:31 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> At 02:22 AM 7/12/2010, Michael Pollak wrote:
> Real musicians -- people who live to play and write, and whose
> indispensable goal is to make some kind of living at it because it's
> the most important thing in life to them -- are all very much alike
> in their position in the universe. The people who makes spaces for
> them to play are almost always interested in something else and rip
> them off a lot...
Well, the impresario, even a public one, does have nonmusical interests. That is why musicians organize. But I don't think Mahler was "ripped off" by having to "convert" to Papism in order to qualify as director of the Wiener Staatsöper any more than Henri IV was "ripped off" when he made the same conversion. Vienna, like Paris, *valait bien une Messe."
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Shane Mage
Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there
are appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only offering acceptable is silence.