Find the nearest book.
Turn to page 123.
Go to the fifth sentence on the page.
Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog.
Name the book and the author, and tag three more folks.
Here goes...
"...There are directions for the printer and directions to be printed in the score. Messiaen said that the preface and all the fingerings had to be included. He also told the printer to mind the page turns."(Yvonne Loriod talking to author Rebecca Rischin about preparing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time for publication in 1942.)
The book: For the End of Time by Rebecca Rischin, Cornell University Press.
I'm tagging Viola in Vilnius, Helen and Jeremy.
4 comments:
'In any case,these days his reading matter consists solely of bedtime stories for the twins, when he is home in time. Among his favourite activities are reading, gardening and sex with his wife. But for months now he has been almost always too tired, too worried or, more recently, too depressed to do any of them.'
Sound familiar, not the content..., but the text. Yes, it's one of my Christmas presents, 'Rites of Spring' by Jessica Duchen..
I've only just started, and haven't got this far yet, but I'm really enjoying it!
Aha...hope you do enjoy the rest, and not just page 123...Happy Xmas!
Yes, I am enjoying it, and I've also gone way past page 123 now!
Happy New Year!
Um... I think that was my "p. 123" comment, anna, and Jessica, I think that it got lost in blog translation. It was from Little Women.
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