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« Reply #150 on: 14:04:43, 07-08-2007 » |
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What's on page 4? Ads? It doesn't quite work like that, Mr. Sudden. First there are seven pages of BLASTS, then five pages of BLESSES. One of the persons BLESSED is "George Mozart," and we wonder, whether any Member has heard of him before? |
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« Reply #151 on: 16:05:01, 07-08-2007 » |
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we wonder, whether any Member has heard of him before?
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #152 on: 16:10:52, 07-08-2007 » |
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Aha, so, that's where that, missing, comma, got to! Found another couple, tinners... |
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« Reply #153 on: 16:23:34, 07-08-2007 » |
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Just for the record, it seems now that this thread has gone from stuff about various types of (occasionally heavily gendered and/or politicised) musicological pursuits to discussions of the finer points of punctuation (some might say from the anal to the semicolonic, but you didn't hear that from me)...
Back to Sorabji, anyone?!...
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Evan Johnson
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« Reply #154 on: 16:26:13, 07-08-2007 » |
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Back to Sorabji, anyone?!...
Who?! |
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« Reply #155 on: 17:05:12, 07-08-2007 » |
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Back to Sorabji, anyone?!...
Who?! I would have suggested that you ask Richard Barrett for the answer to that question (since it was he who initiatied this thread) but feel that it might be better to answer it myself by stating that he's the fellow mentioned in posts 61, 64, 68 and 70 of this thread by one Evan Johnson... ...(who?)... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #156 on: 18:16:02, 07-08-2007 » |
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #157 on: 18:26:44, 07-08-2007 » |
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....whom? The one who keeps getting displaced by anti-musicology polemics? |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #158 on: 08:12:14, 08-08-2007 » |
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....whom? ...but for the sake of consistency with Evan Johnson's "who"... Best, Alistair (who/m?) |
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« Reply #159 on: 08:14:37, 08-08-2007 » |
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....whom? The one who keeps getting displaced by anti-musicology polemics? ...("Polemics"? Hmmm. Not your style, that, is it?!)... That's about the thread topic, is it, Ian? Ah, no, it isn't - but then you did after all promise that you were not inclined to write more on that subject, did you not?... Come on, Ian - why not give us some more of your thoughts about the colour of Brahms? (in the Brahms thread, of course) Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #160 on: 14:03:46, 10-08-2007 » |
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His writings are of course hilariously obnoxious, but I think not to be taken too seriously except as an expression of an unclubbable nature.
But he's been proved right about a good number of composers who were little known/unfashionable at the time, hasn't he ? Sorabji wrote in praise of such composers as Mahler, Busoni, Szymanowski, Alkan, Liszt, Medtner, York Bowen, Van Dieren etc at a time when these composers were underappreciated. I applaud him for this. I find much of his social and political outlook abominable. The music of such composers as I've listed above is not abominable. This is the essence of the point I addressed to Poivrade. Another try. I find it interesting that Sorabji should write in support of these composers (others include Godowsky, Chausson, Francis George Scott and Reger) who were rather less celebrated/appreciated at the time than they are now. But perhaps there were others who shared his views, albeit a small number ? I've never ceased to be surprised by the number of people I've met over the years who have voiced similar enthusiasms. And they've not all been pianists, Sorabji devotees or even musicians. A small percentage of the music-loving fraternity perhaps, but with a surprising unanimity concerning what is a reasonably disparate group of composers. Or perhaps they're not ? |
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