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- From: apter@fid.morgan.com (Steve Apter)
- Subject: Re: Beginning a classical collection
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.224749.5591@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
- References: <BzzAMr.AKD@nic.umass.edu> <1992Dec30.205134.23099@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <1992Dec30.221729.3597@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:47:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.221729.3597@Princeton.EDU> roger@astro.princeton.edu (Roger Lustig) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.205134.23099@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) writes:
- >>You're in luck! There's a book called "Who's Afraid of Classical Music,"
- >>by Michael Walsh. Even though it's a *little* pandering at times, it's
- >>a good book over all, and he recommends conductors, performers and recordings.
- >>His taste is quite good, IMHO.
- >
- >Yexch. I'd rather listen to three hours of uninterrupted Melanie or
- ^^^^^
- Is this Mayan for "yuck"?
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- >something. Yes, he panders -- all over the place. Opera is just
- >sex and violence and titters, composer trivia replaces any discussion
- >of who these people were and why they wrote the music they did and
- >why people listened to it so intently, and on and on. The book
- >trivializes classical music, and it's laden with errors, besides.
- >
- >Roger
- >
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- I've recommended it before -- how about David Hurwitz' "Beethoven or Bust"?
- Lousy title, yexchy cover, but well-written, enthusiastic, with equal parts
- assistance in theory, history, and assembling a record collection.
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- He likes Bruckner, too.
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- And he's a *banker*.
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