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canción patter escrita por Ira Gershwin y Kurt Weill
"Tschaikowsky " es una canción patter con letra de Ira Gershwin y música de Kurt Weill, interpretada por primera vez por el comediante estadounidense Danny Kaye en el musical de Broadway Lady in the Dark de 1941. Gershwin utilizó la ortografía "Tschaikowsky" de la transliteración alemana en lugar de la transliteración moderna más ampliamente aceptada Tchaikovsky.
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“What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”
“I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard! It annoys me that this self-inflated mediocrity is hailed as a genius.”
“After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.”
“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”
“This evening I feel sad and am shedding tears because this morning while wandering in the woods I was unable to find a single violet. What an old sniveller I am...!”
“Fate... hangs over our heads like the sword of Damocles and inexorably distills a slow and deadly venom. One must bend to it and abandon oneself to boundless despair...”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.