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I wanted to comment with something witty, but my wife, two daughters, and most of my staff strongly advised against it.
Go on: we want to know!
As Mr B’s secretaries, and in his name, we herewith render his comment, he himself still being incapacitated with laughter: “… [ redacted] ….!”
Seeing Boulez and Stockhausen together here reminds me that the whole wonderful generation has passed now:
Xenakis, Ligeti, Feldman, Cage, Henze, Berio, Nono, Kagel, Lutoslawski, Carter
the rest is noise… could be also our civilization suffering from tinnitus.
Ha ha! …. [redacted]
Some of these made a fair amount of noise – Xenakis for a start.
Opera is dead. Let’s smoke it.
Despite being obviously much taller, the face of the guy on the right looks a bit like the one of Lionel Messi (anyone here ever heard of him?). đŸ˜€
He sure played in his own league.
Helmut Schmidt was a chain-smoker all his adult life yet lived to be 96 – in good health too, apart from some difficulty in walking.
Yes, but if he only would have given up smoking, he could have already been 105 when he died last year.
I remember seeing a photo of Pierre Boulez uncorking a bottle of wine with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. It was an old photograph; considering the ease with which he conducted orchestras even in his later years indicates he quit smoking decades ago.
But maybe not. Maybe Woody Allen was right all along (see: movie, Sleepers).
“Smoking is for all but some exceptional subjects, incompatible with successful aging and compromises life expectancy even in extreme longevity.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15207443