Junior wrote:
>This thread is nuts <g>.
>
>Heh.... Geir, I was mostly joking. Carl, I'm way back off that yellow
>line!!
>
>And Geir: while Wagner isn't my own cup of tea, more power to ya. As Jon
>Weisberger was just saying in another context of this same thread (!?),
>these taste matters are not really the basic point.
>
>I was simply alluding to a kind of basic historical/stylistic distinction
>in European music. Dividing what we Americans universally refer to as
>"classical" into some still-overlarge categories that don't lump 400
>years of music into a single notion, etc. You know, Palestrina to Bach
>etc. in an early music to baroque phase, Mozart and Co. as classical,
>and post-Beethoven to the 20th century as romantic.
>
>Memo to self: use <g> thingies,
>--junior, who never would have been invited to lunch with Adorno
I should have known not to drunkenly jump into threads I haven't been following up.
Then again, I hope it makes fun reading for those who do. Follow up, I mean.
Now, I'm gonna search, search for the basic point.
Geir
I've found it - Vince Bell:Texas plates
