RARA-AVIS: Re: Back by Popular Demand

From: Dave Zeltserman ( dz@hardluckstories.com)
Date: 01 Dec 2007


> Let's let Altman rest in peace. He died quite recently and his body of
> work has already entered Film Parnassus. And let's not confuse a
> person with his work, let alone with one piece of his work. By playing
> Dante in this selective fashion, you could condemn Beethoven to a
> special circle for having written Wellington's Victory, a dreadful
> work, or Mozart, for having written some of those pieces where he was
> just spinning his wheels, or any writer who wrote a bad book.
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>

And if you are going to send him to hell, at least let it be for "Quintet".

--Dave Z.



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