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From: Anonymous on 23 Apr 2010 21:09 In article <b4553b0e-dfe4-4139-80ee-ffefd5e00255(a)x3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, Alistair <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On Apr 23, 7:12?pm, docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote: [snip] >> (Stravinsky's music does not please >> all ears alike but few deny his place as Someone Who Changed The Way The >> World Hears Music.) > >Mozart might disagree with you. To the best of my knowledge, Mr Maclean, Mozart did not disagree, does not disagree and will never disagree with me on the works of specific 20th-century musicians. It might be interesting to see evidence which is construed to contradict this. DD
From: Anonymous on 23 Apr 2010 21:12 In article <07388846-8b63-4b87-a4d9-2285acec3f84(a)q15g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, Alistair <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: >On Apr 22, 11:39?pm, docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote: >> In article <8bd265df-3b40-4a58-b85c-030efa2b6...(a)r1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, >> >> Alistair ?<alist...(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >I'm 5-(cough) years old and about 20 years ago (in >> >Doc's golden haze) I heard a radio programme where the commentator >> >said that any one older than 30 years had to be racist because of the >> >influences they were exposed to. Methinks he was right and the gray- >> >hairs (or silver-backs if you prefer) are sub-consciously racist even >> >where they are not overtly so. >> >> Racist? ?Pfawgh, not a Chinaman's Chance for that. ?Perhaps someone who >> has less of a Scotsman's Purse might wish to wager otherwise and hope >> there's no Welshing involved. >> > >You've got me there. I have two Scotsmans' purses. One is silver with >white fur body and black fur tassels and the other is brown leather >with brown tassels. A rare thing, indeed, Mr Maclean. I've never seen a Scotsman who is 'silver with white fur body and black fur tassels' or 'brown leather with brown tassels', let alone their purses. DD
From: Pete Dashwood on 23 Apr 2010 21:35 Alistair wrote: > On Apr 23, 7:12 pm, docdw...(a)panix.com () wrote: >> In article <sag3t5lpbevno2nrlufvddhl5li49uq...(a)4ax.com>, >> >> SkippyPB <swieg...(a)Nospam.neo.rr.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:30:26 +0000 (UTC), docdw...(a)panix.com () >>> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>>> And for anyone interested... it might be interesting to Compare and >>>> Contrast Mr Leadbetter's work (previewable at >>>> <http://www.thecardiffdevils.com/Leadbelly/download-Leadbellys_Last_Se...>) >>>> with 'Ain't It Grand to Live A Christian' by Blind Willie McTell >>>> (previewable at >>>> <http://www.rhapsody.com/blind-willie-mctell/statesboro-blues-the-earl...>) >>>> and muse over the Musician's Creed of 'hear a lick, steal a lick'. >> >>> "Hear a lick, steal a lick" -- very true -- just ask Eric Clapton :) >>> If it weren't for Willie Dixon and Robert Johnson, there might not >>> be any good licks. >> >> What came to my mind while writing that was Lonnie Johnson's 'To Do >> This You Got To Know How', which struck me when I first heard it as >> 'Every Standard Lick Strung Together'. >> >>> Except for those created by Jimmy Hendrix but he was >>> in a class of his own and on his own planet. >> >> In 1966 the treacly 'Born Free' received an Acadamey Award for Best >> Original Song and endless, *endless* airplay. >> >> In 1967 Jimi Hendrix released 'Purple Haze', which struck me on first >> hearing as 'This is nigh Stravinsky'. (Stravinsky's music does not >> please all ears alike but few deny his place as Someone Who Changed >> The Way The World Hears Music.) >> >> DD > > Mozart might disagree with you. Mozart has no opinion on this or anything else. He is one of the decomposing composers... Pete. -- "I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
From: Howard Brazee on 26 Apr 2010 11:24 On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:12:28 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf(a)panix.com () wrote: >In 1966 the treacly 'Born Free' received an Acadamey Award for Best >Original Song and endless, *endless* airplay. Which bothered lots of people who apparently didn't have tuners on their radios. (Don't Worry, Be Happy is still a decent song). >In 1967 Jimi Hendrix released 'Purple Haze', which struck me on first >hearing as 'This is nigh Stravinsky'. (Stravinsky's music does not please >all ears alike but few deny his place as Someone Who Changed The Way The >World Hears Music.) I never rated Jimi Hendrix as highly as some do, and rate his influence as not as desirable. That said, I have a couple of his albums on my iTunes. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison
From: Howard Brazee on 26 Apr 2010 11:25
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:35:00 +1200, "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood(a)removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: >Mozart has no opinion on this or anything else. He is one of the decomposing >composers... I expect his decomposition is of the finished variety. -- "In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found, than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department." - James Madison |