Brubeck

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has a great article profiling Dave Brubeck. I chuckled over this paragraph:

Standard encyclopedia articles state that, before going to war, Brubeck studied with Arnold Schonberg, the leading prophet of the strictly academic, highly dissonant compositional technique that dominated "serious" composition in the middle years of the 20th century. Brubeck explains with good humor that he had a one-hour lesson with Schonberg, during which the young Californian and the venerable German did nothing but argue.

I can only imagine.

(Via Amy Welborn.)