Posting’s been a little light of late, mostly on accounta we’ve been busier than a blind dog in a meat house. Until this caught my eye, anyway: Man with Mahler Photo Complains of Pressure from Schoenbergs. Clearly it was time for a breather.
Turns out that Cliff Fraser, a 35-year-old Los Angeles emergency room technician and college student, has in his possession a signed photograph of Gustav Mahler—and Arnold Schoenberg’s heirs want it. The best part of the story? The very last paragraph:
Mr. Fraser said that since finding the photo he had learned a lot about both Schoenberg and Mahler, and something else as well. “I’m not a very big fan of their music,” he said. “I tried, but it just doesn’t work for me.”
Okay, then. Back to work.
