MUSIC QUIPS AND QUOTES

If white bread could sing it would sound like Olivia Newton John. - Anon.

"Wagner has lovely moments, but awful quarters of an hour" - Rossini in a letter to Emile Nauman, April 1867

"A glorified bandmaster!" - Sir Thomas Beecham of Toscanini in Neville Cardus

"The odd and pleasant taste of a pink sweet filled with snow" - Claude Debussy of Grieg's music

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds" - attrib. Mark Twain

The young tenor di Stefano appeared at the Theatre Colon, in Buenos Aires, in the same season as Gigli, and was disturbed to find that on one of the many bills, his name appeared in larger type than Gigli's. He told the great man at once this apparent slight was none of his doing and that it distressed him to see himself given such precedence. "Don't worry, my young friend," Gigli loftily told him, "as soon as the public hear us both, they will realize which billing is correct,"

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