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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: RFV: BRUCKNER RE: THE BEST
- Summary: if it claques like a duck ...
- Message-ID: <C08t26.77A@panix.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 20:03:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.153901.18926@husc3.harvard.edu> <1993Jan1.231808.9985@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
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- In article <1993Jan1.231808.9985@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
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- >Thank you for your lucidly argued posting. I am, of course, on the pro
- >side. We now need something like 395 antis...
-
- The "antis" are mostly too bored with Bruckner to bother intruding
- into the smug jumping up and down of the Brucknerites. I really
- have no idea what the proportion of pro-vs-con might be, and I don't
- much care. FWIW, I enjoy the scherzo of the 9th symphony, for its
- rather monomaniacal intensity (a bit like Mahler but without devel-
- opment). Encountering this again recently caused me to explore some
- of the other symphonies -- and now I have another bunch of CDs I'll
- probably never listen to again. Someday I may understand why the
- Brucknerites *like* this stuff so much; for now, I haven't got a
- clue.
- --
- Michael L. Siemon "We honour founders of these starving cities
- mls@panix.com Whose honour is the image of our sorrow ...
- They built by rivers and at night the water
- Running past the windows comforted their sorrow."
-