James Ellroy On How To Use A Beethoven Sonata To Pick Up Women

More of James Ellroy's Beethoven obsession from Tim Mangan (previously blogged here):

He tells me there's a dame. He's in love again. Crazy, obsessive love. "Immortal Beloved" love, he would say. He says that he plays the dame the Adagio of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata on the stereo and tells her, "This is how I feel about you."

This is a shot of Ellroy's apartment, with framed Deutsche Grammophon LP covers:

Oh, and Ellroy -- whose "Blood's A Rover" is about to come out -- was in the house when Krystian Zimerman yelled at his Disney Hall audience.*

Ellroy left the concert hall.

* (Opera Chic then ended on CBC radio debating the matter with Mark Swed)

Comments

[Kevin Edmund Youkilis 4 MVP]

Look at that jacket, he needs more than Beethoven to pick up women. Dude needs a makeover.

[Robert in New orleans]

There's something obtuse about framing DG album covers. There's not much art to them. A nice photo, yes, but then 1/3 covered by the standard yellow title box at the top. There are plenty of beautiful classical music LP covers out there, but the ones pictured are just photos of some doods.