Sorry for the empty post -- hit the wrong "button". What I meant to say:
Yes, well, I suspect you know the composer and cultural context much better than I do. By the way, could you translate the text in the little bubble that comes up early in the video? Thanks, and keep playing (lute!) Chris. >>> "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]> 10/5/2009 9:32 AM >>> Maybe I should translate his "prose" sometime, for our delectation. It is written in normal sentences, but the content is even worse than in his "music". RT ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]>; "David Rastall" <[email protected]> Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 8:09 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: The reason we play lutes David, That's the biggest problem of all with this sort of stuff - dead seriousness. I forced myself to listen to all of this and found that there were actually a few interesting moments buried in there between vast canyons of superfluousness. Unfortunately the composer obviously took himself so seriously that he seems to believe that we're going to be so impressed by his command of erudite compositional techniques that we'll feel honored to absorb anything he casts our way - even 7 minutes of noises. No doubt the composer would be happy to lecture us about the mind-boggling array of chance operations, algorithmic constructs or complex pre-compositional grids he used to generate the sonic events of "Manifest." Now, don't we feel stupid? Chris --- On Sun, 10/4/09, David Rastall <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David Rastall <[email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: The reason we play lutes > To: "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:25 PM > On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Roman > Turovsky wrote: > > > EM revival in general was a reaction to this type of > (neo)modernism. > > In that context, anything is possible. I knew a > college professor > back in the day who was a composer. He called his > work "radical-neo- > post-diatonicism." The weird thing was that he was > deadly serious > about it. That's really how he wanted to be > known! I have enough > trouble with Charles Mouton, without having to contend with > neo-styro- > HIP. > > Best, > > David Rastall > [email protected] > www.rastallmusic.com > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute
