The Fredösphere

So I'm listening to some Corigliano for the first time in my life, mainly because I'm terrified my Aworks buddy will discover my ignorance and berate me for it.

Corigliano's Etude Fantasy contains a surprise.  The third movement quotes a few bits from the middle movement of a Bartok piano concerto (#2 or #3 or maybe some of both).  The quotes are short, but they sound like note-for-note copies.  Surely this observation has been made before; a quick visit to Google turned up nothing, but I got the idea that more generally, quoting other composers seems to be a Corigliano device.  I think he should stick to quotes of motives that are a bit more iconic, don't you?  He should make it clear it's a tribute, not an act of theft:

Di di di daaaaa!  Di di di daaaaa!

That kind of thing.

I've always liked Bartok, which is to say, I've liked him since I first met him, in high school, via a recording of his last two piano concertos.  Such weirdness was not my usual thing at that age.  Maybe two things helped me fall in love with those pieces:  the piano-orchestra combo has always been very easy on my ears, and that recording helped me survive a weird attack of hives that lasted four days.  I found if I lay completely still, the hives would go away.  If I moved at all, they would return with a vengeance.  As I said, weird.  I couldn't even read; all I could do is listen to music, and I played the grooves off that Bartok album.  (In case you're wondering, the diagnosis was:  an allergic reaction to my body's own antibodies fighting a cold I was getting over.  Did I mention it was weird?)