Interlude With Chopin

 It says more about Timothy Burton than about Danny de Vito, but I greatly prefer Burgess Meredith as The Penguin.

I  don’t blame de Vito for taking the job, though.

Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

—Frédéric Chopin

One’s friend doesn’t celebrate a 75th birthday every day (or year) and not all of one’s friends, on turning 75, celebrate by playing Chopin’s Opus 28 in a single sitting. Thus, today was a signal treat! It had been an unconscionably long time since I had listened to the set and i was blown away afresh by the intersection of inventiveness and elegance.