Thursday, March 22, 2007

Trivia Pur$uit

Igor Stravinsky, the versatile conductor and composer who was considered one of the most original creative musicians of the 20th century, once said: ``Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end''.

4 comments:

Bart said...

Reminds me of an exercise I did in one of my lower level writing courses. We showed up with our short stories, and the prof made us cut the first and last paragraphs.

Anonymous said...

Nice to see a blogpost on Igor Stravinsky, one of my childhood heroes. I'll never forget the first time I heard 'Le Sacre du Printemps' at age 14.... I think my pubic hair started growing faster after that :-)

david mcmahon said...

Hi Bart,

I like the sound of the teacher who thought of that. Maybe I should start doing that with every chapter in my next novel!

Cheers

David

david mcmahon said...

Hi Antares,

I thought his quote was terrific.

David