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)
