[Borges]

The Mozart Piano concertoes are the best music for soloist and orchestra ever written by anyone. Carmina Burana? Ugh! That’s up there with the Pachelbel Canon in the ‘Enduring Schlock’ category. Ever listen to late Debussy like the Etudes? He went way beyond ‘Claire De Lune’.

[Desdemona]

The Taco Bell canon,oops Pachelbel, is an insult to strings players everywhere and is really a funeral piece, but people forget that. Carmina is actually a lot of fun with the right conductor. Last season, the final performance of Carmina is one of my "scrapbook" performances, it was that good - and it sells out every time we do it.

Late Debussy - not in a while. For Etudes, I usually listen to Chopin, but then only if I'm moody.

Gotta go. We're singing a Palestrina piece at Mass this morning I should probably go over it.