Coda (I) (2019)

Paul Van Dyck: Second Reporter

Quotes 

• Helen Morrison : Why the "Fantasie?" Is it because it is meant as a cry of despear after the separation from Clara?

  Henry Cole : When Schumann was asked what he meant by the piece, do you know what he said? Nothing. He just sat down at the piano and played again. However, some scientists claim we owe the "Fantasie" as well as numerous other masterpieces to treponema pallidum.

  Second Reporter : Is she a composer?

  Henry Cole : She's the syphilis bacterium.