Re: Rachmaninoff?

["Kris Shapar" <kshapar@dcez.nicom.com>]

On  8 May 97 about Re: Rachmaninoff?, Leon A. Le Leu 
<lleleu@medeserv.com.au> had this to say:

> As for the person who said "I hate hearing dollar signs instead of
> music!" might one read into that the voice of a spoilt brat? 
> Rachmaninoff had a family to feed and a lifestyle to maintain just
> like anyone else.  And one can read dollar signs into Bach just as
> easily as into Rachmaninoff - Bach had an even larger family to
> feed!  I cannot recall a single piece by Rachmaninoff where any
> impression is given of lust for money triumphing over artistic
> integrity.
> 

As the person who said that, a nonspoilt brat (don't accuse, still 
less make a personal attack, where you have no knowledge), I will add 
only that I do not hear dollar signs instead of music in the case of 
for instance Bach and Mozart, who also had families to feed. I 
don't hear self-conscious, second-intentional manipulation; I 
hear sincere music -- written perhaps to pay the butcher's bill, but 
music.

Also, that was a private post made public to the list without 
my assent.

                                 
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Kris Shapar

          To doubt everything or to believe everything
          are two equally convenient solutions; both
          dispense with the necessity of reflection.

                              - Jules Henri Poincare
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