From: President • To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: comments about the review on Facebook Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:03:42 +0000 I agree you should not support entertainment and as you have noticed I am not an entertainer! But I am in a serious business and will see you tomorrow I even left my cost there to insure that we continuity the discussion. I hope we can together make a difference for music! (I would like to go out having been right once) And I think you are terrific and I trust you as well as respect you Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> wrote: I have great respect for you. yes my sense of humor is caustic. an ok I tried and it didn;t work, I fully understand accept appreciate. I am not criticizing your life work, I am thinking out loud . uncensored i admit. . I am confused. I am taken by the dwindling lack of support for music . I will not do not and cannot support " entertainment". On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:32 AM, President wrote: Not at all. You misunderstand my position. First we can agree to disagree; even the NYT review admitted that it was entertaining. After all your claim was in my view extreme: that no one smiled or liked it or was moved. Second is this about mistakes? If it is there is no doubt I have made a mistake. If you want me to list all of them I am happy to. The trouble is that most of what I try fails; the percentages of real success are so low. So I admit I have been wrong. But consider the context of this argument. You lead with a complete trashing, laced with humor. I scramble to rescue some shred of self regard in the wake of a performance. I admit that my defense of this piece has failed. I however do not see works of music as zero sum items of right or wrong. About the audience and the enterprise do you think it is easy to concede twenty years as a failure? And if you think I always think I am right you are mistaken. You yoursel