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Chris Newman - The reason I am unable to live in my country as a composer is a political one
Michael Finnissy - We'll get there someday
- My parents' generation thought that war meant something.
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« Reply #46 on: 12:39:26, 13-08-2007 » |
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Just to be a real pedant, there's no 'that' in Finnissy's My parents' generation
Also forgot Clar Henze Barlough's Sprite the Diner (by Nib Writer) (pun on 'Spreize deine Beine breiter')
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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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Just to be a real pedant, there's no 'that' in Finnissy's My parents' generation
Not meaning to be a vengeful b*****d or nuffin, but there's only one 'g' in 'Schwankungen'.  |
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Just to be a real pedant, there's no 'that' in Finnissy's My parents' generation
Not meaning to be a vengeful b*****d or nuffin, but there's only one 'g' in 'Schwankungen'. Modified accordingly - do add a capital 'W' to 'War' as well (only other word with a capital).  |
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Chris Newman - The reason I am unable to live in my country as a composer is a political one
Michael Finnissy - We'll get there someday
- My parents' generation thought that war meant something.
Christopher Trapani - Half of me is ocean, half of me is sky Four more for the 'Not actually true' list as well? Erm, well, (1) I wouldn't presume to doubt Chris Newman's motives. (2) is by the temporal nature of its assertion always still possible, I would have thought. (3) seems quite plausible to me. As a friend of the composer I can confirm that (4) is not strictly accurate. Maybe a quarter of each. |
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do add a capital 'W' to 'War' as well (only other word with a capital). OK now? (I don't like it so much that way.  ) |
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Now I wonder how many people get the right number of dots on either side of sofferte onde serene of Nono.....  |
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« Reply #52 on: 13:28:03, 13-08-2007 » |
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As far as I'm concerned, three is the only ever correct number of dots. If that's not how many Nono's (admittedly rather lovely) title has then Nono got it wrong.
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Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache
good lyrics too Not a bad tune either (at least, it suits BF's voice). I didn't know that Brian Ferneyhough sings on that track. |
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« Reply #54 on: 13:37:32, 13-08-2007 » |
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Jamie Croft - Who is this Thatcher anyway?
Isn't that a kind of in-principle sequel to The Unanswerable Question? Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #55 on: 13:39:37, 13-08-2007 » |
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Erm, well, (1) I wouldn't presume to doubt Chris Newman's motives. I beg his pardon. Neither would I. I thought he did live in his own country though. Pure curiosity: where does he live now? |
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Chris Newman - The reason I am unable to live in my country as a composer is a political one
I don't know him personally, but I would find it hard to imagine that this would be his ONLY reason, but... Mark R. Taylor - Victorian Values
Best played on period instruments, presumably. Michael Finnissy - We'll get there someday
Fine, but it doesn't tell us where "there" is... Best, Alistair |
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Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and CelestaBritten - War RequiemKancheli - ...à la Duduki - Trauerfarbenes Land - Magnum Ignotum - Vom Winde beweint... - Simi - joyless thoughts for cello and orchestraMessiaen - Quator pour la fin du temps - Éclairs sur l'Au-delà - Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum - V. Et j'entendis la voix d'une foule immenseLouis Andriessen - DE STAATJohn Zorn - Music for Children (becomes ironic when you hear the piece  ) - Ingenious Ejaculation (a 23 second piece ) Stravinsky - Souvenir d'une marche boche |
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« Reply #58 on: 13:46:00, 13-08-2007 » |
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Another great Finnissy one - False notions of progress (a piece for three oboists, each playing various types of oboe/reed instrument, and who pin parts of the Communist Manifesto onto a board during the piece).
...as a false notion of progress? Also Multiple Forms of Constraint.
If one had to fill them all in accurately, these might perhaps be representative of government bureaucracy James Dillon - East 11th St NY 10003
Now if he'd used a UK address instead, the title might just have risked infringing the Data Protection Act. Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #59 on: 13:48:31, 13-08-2007 » |
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John Zorn - Ingenious Ejaculation (a 23 second piece ) Shouldn't it be a piece of varying duration, depending on the "performance"? Best, Alistair |
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