igor stravinsky

• dustin hoffman'ın bir röportajında anlattığı anektodu kenara not almışım. sanırım sanat hayatındaki en mutlu anı sormuştu sunucu. hoffman şu olayı anlattı:
  
  i remember being in a hotel room in 1967 in san franciso one night and i'm
  flipping the dials after doing all this promoting all day long. there's
  this little old jewish guy with a bald head sitting at a piano and he's
  being interviewed. and i suddenly realize i'm looking at igor stravinski
  the great russian-american composer. the interviewer is saying to him...
  "so mr. stravinski, what is the greatest moment for you? is it when you
  finally write the symphony?
  
  and he says..."no, no, no..."
  
  he sounds like a new york cab driver.
  
  "is it when you've heard it played the first time by a symphony?"
  
  and he says...."no, no, no..."
  
  "what about opening night when they premier it and herald it as being
  one of the greatest works of the 20th century?"
  
  and he says...."no, no no..."
  
  "so what is the greatest moment for you?"
  
  he was sitting at the piano with music on the thing there and he
  says: "i'm sitting here at the piano and for 3, 4 hours i'm trying to find
  a note. i can't find the note and i'm going 'bum, bum'....'bum,
  bum'....'bum, bum' for three hours. finally after 3 hours i find the
  note. that's the moment. there is nothing like it. that's everything"