"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
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Zoltan Kocsis plays Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy and Bartok
Here's a recording of a recital he gave when he was 18, just after he won the Beethoven Competition of Hungarian Radio. If I'd heard it I'd probably have given up. Entirely mature and youthful at the same time. Listening to him playing Beethoven is like falling in love with him for the first time all over again.
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