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- From: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Handel's Messiah version 1.4
- Message-ID: <1107@dscatl.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 04:06:13 GMT
- Organization: Digital Systems Co., Atlanta GA
- Lines: 37
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- I received the following humorous note from Lindsay Cleveland
- (dscatl!lindsay@gatech.edu) and thought the rec.music.classical
- crowd might appreciate it (as well as start some kind of
- discussion or other hoopla):
-
- > From: Winter Simulation Conference Keynote this week.
- >
- > Keynoter Jim Henriksen (one of 4 keynoters) observed that we were
- > lucky that programmers and composers are different. Otherwise we
- > might be singing Handel's Messiah, version 1.4 and we might be
- > wondering if Beethoven's 9th symphony was a new release or merely a
- > cost-free upgrade from the 8th.
-
- My response to Lindsay:
-
- Henriksen didn't look closely enough at the analogy.
- In the case of Messiah, certainly, we have several 1.* versions
- to choose from (and the UC Berkeley recording by which to
- digitally realize any of them) that are Handel's own; one
- might call Mozart's reorchestration V.2.0 for that matter.
- As for Beethoven's Ninth, yes, a new release, but what about
- the many reorchestrations done as a matter of course (including
- but not limited to Mahler's) by umpteen conductors?
- Pop songs (particularly old standards) would be the best
- example of "reprogramming," perhaps. :-)
-
- Perhaps Henriksen doesn't realize how many composers ARE
- programmers (and how many new electronic music pieces
- ARE programs (or represented that way)! :-) )
-
- Cheers,
-
- --Mark
-
- dscatl!mgresham@gatech.edu
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