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- From: huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.shostakovich
- Subject: Re: Quartet #8 by Kronos :Good, Bad or Ugly?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 17:30:01 -0500
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- References: <1993Jan25.211108.4328@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.211108.4328@athena.mit.edu> davidu@space.mit.edu (David T S Um) writes:
- } Anyway, if I may dare to utter taboo names, how is the Kronos Quartet
- }version of the 8th, which I believe is on their "Black Angels" CD? I ordered
- }this disc through the mail just before I subscribed to a.f.s., but it has not
- }yet arrived. Since I have been castigated for my choice of Karajan's
- }performance of DSCH's 10th, I would like to make sure that the Kronos
- }performance is orthodox with the veterans of this newsgroup. So, as the title
- }implies, is the Kronos good, bad or not-fit-to-be-wiped-off-with-toilet-paper?
- }And by the way, do not be concerned that I may have wasted any money, because
- }I ordered CD for Tallis's Spem in Alium transcription.
-
- Well, I liked it, but then I bought the CD to hear Kronos perform a piano
- quintet with Charles Ives (who sang!).
-
- -- Herb Huston
- -- huston@access.digex.com
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