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Donal Henahan
7 quotes
“On the subject of wild mushrooms it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.”
Donal Henahan (1921–2012) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Cage, Elfin Enigma, at 64", The New York Times (October 22, 1976), p. 49
“Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.”
Donal Henahan (1921–2012) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Unsinkable Beverly Sills", in The New York Times (February 11, 1977), sec. c, p. 25
“Bartók's vision of a modern music "rejuvenated under the influence of a kind of peasant music that has remained untouched by the musical creations of the last centuries" appears now as an idea whose time came and went while the recording machines were running. ... In this country, at any rate, real folk music long ago went to Nashville to die and left no known survivors.”
Donal Henahan (1921–2012) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sound of Folk Music", in The New York Times (May 8, 1977), p. 219
“Christina Petrowska ... has fingers that work like chrome‐plated pistons, and her highseated position, with elbows well above the keyboard level, let her bring pulverizing power to bear.”
Donal Henahan (1921–2012) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dazzling, No More", in The New York Times (May 18, 1977), p. 66
“It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. True. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.”
Donal Henahan (1921–2012) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Music View; Whatever Happened to Spontaneity in Performance?", in The New York Times (May 13, 1984), sec. 2, p. 19
“The sad truth is that the human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.”
Donal Henahan (1921–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the final stages of ennui, we may not even be disappointed to hear jarringly wrong notes or wayward interpretations at recitals, because the more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.”
Donal Henahan (1921–2012) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting", in The New York Times (August 31, 1986), sec. 2, p. 13