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- From: Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
- Subject: Classical dementia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.204046.3069@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:40:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.180324.22502@zip.eecs.umich.edu> stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.145830.18402@samba.oit.unc.edu> Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
- >> [stuff deleted]
- >> Maybe we need to start a thread on classical dementia, accidental or
- >>otherwise....>:-)>
- >
- >I second this one. P.D.Q. Bach has given me more of an appreciation for
- >classical music than anyone else (except maybe E.L.P. Some of their
- >swipes^H^H^H^H^H^Hborrowings come from some out of the way places.)
- >
- Never been a big ELP fan, but the classical (ahem) "borrowings"
- they've done have always been from fairly mainstream sources, IMHO.
- >Of course this raises the question of whether some of the really avant
- >garde stuff from the sixties and seventies was dementia or not . . . :-)
- >
- Heh. Reminds me of a line from an Anna Russell album about how one
- never knows whether contemporary composers are serious or "just trying to
- get away with something". Russell is quite the classical dementia figure
- herself, of course, any anyone who has ever heard her 25-minute version of
- Wagner's "Ring" can attest!
-
- > -- Stewart "not to mention 4'33" " Tame
- >
- We told you not to mention that! <rim shot>
- Chuck
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