Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience.
I have never recovered from this illustration by Scott Cameron for Barbara Nichol’s “Beethoven Lives Upstairs.”
“Why are you pestering me?” “I also like Satie’s work. "And it’s the first time I’ve met someone with the same attitude I have… ”…when right beside a corpse.“
