Posted on October 19th, 2008 by Carolyn
From a George Bernard Shaw music review: “The concert began with Mozart’s Figaro Overture. If you want to ascertain whether a musician is hopelessly belated, benighted, out of date, and behind his time, ask him how this overture should be played. If he replies ‘In three and a half minutes,’ away with him at once; he is guilty. . . . However, the overture, so treated, is undeniably useful to boil eggs by, though I prefer them boiled four minutes myself.” -from The Ravenous Muse by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
