[QUOTE]"I know Victor for a few years now and I don't recall ever seeing that site."
*blush*
The closest J. S. Bach —the greatest of us all—#ever got to giving an "interview" was when he summed up his life's ENORMOUS work with a telegraphic and astoundingly modest "I've worked hard". And Schumann wrote that "a knowledge of the history of music, the composers and their works that preceded us, is the surest and shortest cure of vanity and self-importance". If nothing else, I DID pay attention during those long Music History lectures.
Plamen, your use of logic is exemplary; Aristotle himself would be proud of you! # If I may add, by way of anecdote: I once got a hilarious review after the performance of one of my works in South America, written in the usual, hyperbolic, "artsy" Spanish of the genre. The article showers my piece with WILDLY extramusical adjectives (urban, right-wing # geometrical, composite, and blah, and blah, and blah...) and, at the very last sentence, it concludes with a deliciously funny "nevertheless, we liked the music."
#Mind you, the piece was a Sonatina for Piano, i.e. ehm... hardly a piece that could have been misconstrued in political terms.
To say nothing else, the German mandolin culture of today is vibrant and organized on a level not found elsewhere. Around the Mediterranean we have always had flash-in-the-pan geniuses from time to time, yet rarely an institutional support of native talent. In the U.S. we have first-rate talent, yet rarely on the spotlight— reserved for others on the basis of "ratings", "box-office draw" etc. Such are the ways of the world...
It is not man that lives but his work. (Ioannis Kapodistrias)
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