It may have been a mistake for the composer to write his own libretto; an experienced playwright might have pared the novel more brutally.
I remember his identification of the composer's "mistake" in one particular bar of Don Giovanni, and his refusal to forgive a visiting professional German string quartet who played slightly flat at a music club.
The Takemitsu piece is a sad mistake that expresses only its gentle composer's adoration.
(Chinen) ★ Yusef Lateef: Celebrating 75 Years of Music (Saturday) That number is no mistake: Mr. Lateef, a flutist, saxophonist and composer of nearly mystical authority, has been making music since his teenage years.
Robin Hull, in Penguin Music Magazine, praised the work's "clear beauty impossible to mistake for the art of any other composer"; in Dickinson's view, however, it remains "a frail creation".
I am not taken with its music, but my true problem is with the original idea, which may be guilty of the same mistake made by a number of 19th-century composers, distinguished men so horrified by Bach's "incomplete" solo violin sonatas that they took it upon themselves to add the piano parts the composer had surely meant to include.
Brahms is often mistaken for a dour composer who only honors shades of brown and gray, but Masur proved otherwise, bringing inner lines, particularly those of wind instruments, to the fore, and asking the superb horn soloist, Philip Myers, to use vibrato (which is a commonplace of Eastern European orchestras).
So unprecedented and unruly was this bold psychological stroke that it was at first mistaken, even by the composer's close friends, for a sort of prank.
It took several minutes for me to notice the mistake because such aural experiments are typical of "Meet the Composer".
