[78-L] well, no one's ever mourned a critic

[David Lennick]

Oddly enough, I'm coming up with "like the man said.." or "you know what they 
say.." re France. Either nobody took credit for it or it's so reworded from the 
original that it's become untraceable.

dl

On 3/2/2013 10:37 AM, Philip Carli wrote:
> "A tenor is not a man, but a disease" - Hans von Bülow.  Amongst my accompanying brethren we sometimes call certain singers "throats" when they're out of earshot.  I doubt I was an opera singer in a previous life...they're more likely to be reincarnated as chickens or reptiles, according to current critical opinion.  (Some have reached the chicken stage in this lifetime, like Natalie Dessay.)  But I love opera; it's just a bit like "France is wasted on the French" - which, strangely, may have been said by Shaw.
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> On 01/03/2013, Philip Carli wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't dispute your own deriving entertainment from his work, but
>> I would shy from personally extending it as a general premise. I've
>> ploughed through those three volumes, as until recently there's been
>> very little easily accessible collected late-Victorian music
>> criticism, and found considerable viciousness and pretension rather
>> than insight; if he hadn't become a successful playwright ("there's a
>> very good word called 'dramatist'", wrote W. S. Gilbert with some
>> irritation when he was knighted as a "playwright", but I won't apply
>> it to Shaw) his criticism would be buried with Louis Engel's and James
>> Davison's, and certainly not given the unmerited weight by historians
>> that it has been. I'm not fond of Shaw in any medium except his 1928
>> Movietone short film appearance. PC
>>
> Maybe you were an opera singer in an earlier reincarnation ?   ;-)
>
> Regards
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> Don Cox
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