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November 19, 2004
TT: Sound bite
You may not know that Condoleezza Rice is a serious amateur pianist (she's good enough to have played in public with Yo-Yo Ma a couple of years ago). In light of this posting, I thought I'd pass along a fascinating quote from a profile of Rice that appeared in Wednesday's New York Times:I love Brahms because Brahms is actually structured. And he's passionate without being sentimental. I don't like sentimental music, so I tend not to like Liszt, and I don't actually much care for the Russian romantics Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, where it's all on the sleeve. With Brahms it's restrained, and there's a sense of tension that never resolves.
I myself take a different view of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff (though not Brahms), but it's obvious that our incoming Secretary of State has strong and coherent musical opinions. I'd love to sit down and chat with her about them one of these days....
Posted November 19, 2004 10:23 AM
