“... My teacher, Walter Kamper, belonged to the generation of Austrian pianists (including Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Walter Klien and, most notably, Alfred Brendel) who did much to raise public awareness of Schubert’s piano sonatas, and I think Kamper gave me D784 as an antidote to Chopin, to whom I was perhaps overattached. Where Chopin wrote with an ...”

“... it their business to ensure that critics of Israel do not get important foreign policy jobs. Jimmy Carter wanted to make George Ball his first secretary of state, but knew that Ball was seen as critical of Israel and that the Lobby would oppose the appointment. In this way any aspiring policymaker is encouraged to become an overt supporter of Israel, which is ...”