[78-L] Borrowed tunes

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Jul 10 07:21:52 PDT 2013


That must make me a genius because I don't see it at all.

dl

On 7/10/2013 9:56 AM, Dave Burnham wrote:
>
> The actual quote is, (translated and paraphrased), "any idiot can see that and every idiot has". That certainly put the brakes on me ever mentioning the comparison again;  but I still think it was pretty clever of me to notice it when I was 7.
>
> db
>
> On 2013-07-10, at 6:30 AM, Don Cox<doncox at enterprise.net>  wrote:

>> As to "the big tune of the fourth movement of Brahms' first" - somebody
>> remarked that it sounded very like the big tune in Beethoven's Ninth, to
>> which Brahms replied "Any fool can hear that".
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Don Cox
>> doncox at enterprise.net


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