tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post1221519387666347749..comments2007-07-16T01:42:39.359+01:00Pliablenoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-15587433812943466112007-07-16T01:42:00.000+01:002007-07-16T01:42:00.000+01:00Also recommended is a <A HREF="http://www.amural.com/cww/basics/the-photo/" REL="nofollow">photo</A> at the website for a San Francisco radio show "Classics without Walls." Heitor Villa-Lobos lines up a behind-the-back shot at the billiard table, with his hat pushed back on his head and cigar in mouth. <A HREF="http://www.amural.com/cww/basics/the-photo/" REL="nofollow">http://www.amural.com/cww/basics/the-photo/</A>jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06729310606718200939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-65406222709309415572007-07-14T07:31:00.000+01:002007-07-14T07:31:00.000+01:00Interesting question Chris. <BR/><BR/>Does the answer lie <A HREF="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:l2_jJ4DtqcYJ:musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/interview_mann.html+schoenberg+table+tennis&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=uk" REL="nofollow">here</A>? <BR/><BR/><I>One of the pieces that I'm doing is the Schoenberg/Marx brother's tennis match. Who was the person who always wanted to be Schoenberg's student? I can never remember.<BR/><BR/>Adolf Weiss?<BR/><BR/>No. No. No. The populist. Gershwin! Gershwin, Harpo, Oscar Levant, and Schoenberg used to play tennis every Wednesday. If not Harpo, then Groucho and sometimes Chaplin...blah blah blah. That was the standard foursome. I always understood that John Cage was the ball boy. Is it possible that it's him. Yes, but then I suspect Schoenberg's finger is in the pie there somewhere.<BR/><BR/>Schoenberg used to apparently carry around, I didn't know this either, he used to travel round with a violin case. People would actually query him, "Arnie, I didn't know you were a fiddler." He was not a fiddler. He had table tennis paddles and a net in the violin case. He was a maniac table tennis player.</I><BR/><BR/>Whatever, I bet it wasn't <A HREF="http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2006/11/schoenberg-on-toscanini.html" REL="nofollow">Toscanini.</A>Pliablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-37425432817424032272007-07-14T03:52:00.000+01:002007-07-14T03:52:00.000+01:00I wonder who Schoenberg is playing against? Stravinsky?Chris Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05248396106719265480noreply@blogger.com