Real Quotes by Donal Henahan

Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano…

— Donal Henahan

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

— Donal Henahan

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

— Donal Henahan

It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.

— Donal Henahan

On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one…

— Donal Henahan

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

— Donal Henahan

When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she…

— Donal Henahan

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern…

— Donal Henahan

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal ability to…

— Donal Henahan

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

— Donal Henahan

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads…

— Donal Henahan

The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.

— Donal Henahan