Monday, November 12, 2007

That's what it means!

Concert pianist Vladimir Horowitz played a dissonant contemporary composition at a private gathering. When he had finished, someone asked, "I just don't understand what that composition means, Mr. Horowitz. Could you please explain?" Without a word, Horowitz played the composition again, turned to his questioner, and announced, "That's what it means!" in Philip Kapleau, Awakening to Zen

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