Have you heard the story about Brahms's beard? That famous identifying
growth came comparatively late for those days, when he was pushing thirty,
and so baby-faced that he was refused entry to the casino in Baden-Baden on
the grounds that he wasn't old enough. So he grew the beard so as to look
his actual age, and wrote to a friend, 'Prepare your wife for a truly
terrible one, for I fear that nothing which has been suppressed for so long
can be beautiful.'
Roger and I spent our honeymoon in Baden-Baden, and I at least was delighted
to find a house where Brahms used to stay and compose during the summers,
turned into a museum. His desk and pens, his coffee-machine, his bed, with a
little cupboard beside it which I opened to find -- yes, his chamber-pot.
best joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: Brahms
> And, hey Halvard, if he really said that, he's my kind of person...
>
> Doug
> On 20-May-05, at 9:44 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> How amazing to find this Brahms-fest going on this morning!
>> I must admit I blow hot and cold on Brahms, but am currently
>> in a warmish phase, especially with regard to the viola quintets.
>>
>> Hal "If there is anyone here I have not
>> offended, I apologize."
>> --Johannes Brahms
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Words cling to other words
> As we have seen, although even these are
> Migratory and the forgotten shows through as correction.
> This noun has been defunct for centuries.
>
> Ann Lauterbach
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