Pat Burke 🇺🇦: It’s a fine play, but seldom performed. You need a first rate string quartet who don’t mind doing a bit of acting.

Currently listening to: Leoš Janáček's Lašské Tance 🎶 Lašské tance, last chance, for love! 🎶

There’s a quite delightful moment in Brian Friel‘s play Performances where Janaček, seated at the piano, describes his enjoyment of No, No, Nanette and belts out a few bars of I Want to Be Happy.

Oh, that sounds wonderful! And I'll bet that LJ was quite capable of enjoying a snappy tune, having written a number of them himself.

It’s a fine play, but seldom performed. You need a first rate string quartet who don’t mind doing a bit of acting.

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