"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it." Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010 LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Claude Debussy Masques
This 1929 performance of Debussy's fantastic, innovative and extremely difficult piece, Masques, played by Lazare Lévy is still the best example of Debussy playing I've ever heard in my life. I wish he'd recorded more and especially the French repertoire, many of whose greatest composers he knew and was associated with. His family suffered enormous hardships under the Nazi occupation, his son dying while fighting with the French resistance. He lost his teaching position and was not able to regain it after the war. Which, considering his genius and his fame as a teacher must be one of the most shortsighted of injustices done in that regard.
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