Colin Wilson says this in his book On Music about Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony:
If a world poll is ever taken to decide on the worst piece of music ever written, I imagine this symphony would stand pretty high in the results. […] It does not merely wear its heart on its sleeve; it wears its liver, bowels, and intestines there as well. […] Kennedy was accident-prone, but nothing quite as bad as this overtook him while he was alive.
OOF (but never let it be said Wilson was completely incapable of humour. Just mostly). Tonight, I find myself wondering what the equally unfortunate victims of the September 11 attacks did to deserve this:
Somehow I’d actually completely forgotten this—I can only assume it was my brain doing me a favour for a change—until it turned up in today’s Facebook memories. I was kind of pleased to discover Delfin is now in jail, albeit for corruption and influence peddling while he was the mayor of his town, not for this. Still haven’t decided what the greater crime was.
