[LUTE] Re: review

2009-06-02 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
I've both been told you should do this full time! and to not quit the day job. As a pragmatic realist with a taste for a regular paycheck (and neither a fascist rock band nor a peddler of nocturnal obscuration), I have elected to execute the latter. Eugene -Original Message- From:

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2009-06-02 Thread howard posner
Your plug or my review? On Jun 1, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: Actually I found it rather sociopathic. RT On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: Your LSAQ TJohnson-TBurris review was just plain odd. Thanks for the plug. -- To get on or off this list see list

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2009-06-02 Thread TheOther
Mark Twain on opera: Daniel Winheld wrote: Is it true that Mark Twain actually wrote: Wagner's music isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.? (Now THAT is clear, concise, communicative writing!) It appears that Edgar Wilson Bill Nye had the original quote: Bill Nye Born: 1850-08-25 Died:

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2009-06-02 Thread Roman Turovsky
Whatever your perspicacity tells you. RT From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com Your plug or my review? On Jun 1, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: Actually I found it rather sociopathic. RT On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: Your LSAQ TJohnson-TBurris review was

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2009-06-02 Thread Edward Martin
Now, THAT is a great word! ed At 10:20 PM 6/2/2009 -0400, Roman Turovsky wrote: Whatever your perspicacity tells you. RT Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 To get on or off this list see list information at

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2009-06-01 Thread Lex van Sante
Once a professional critic wrote about a recital of mine that my lute sounded like a crackling painting. Untill now I still don't know what substance he was on.xD Op 1 jun 2009, om 14:57 heeft howard posner het volgende geschreven: On Jun 1, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote: The

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
Your LSAQ TJohnson-TBurris review was just plain odd. RT From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com The Los Angeles Times critic once called a set of program notes I did for the LA Philharmonic oddly conventional. -- To get on or off this list see list information at

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2009-06-01 Thread demery
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com said: Anyone else have reviews they would like to share? oddly conventional. seems he has issues with conventions! Not so much reviews, but, as I am assured, there is a language which scholars employ to describe music. I am

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2009-06-01 Thread howard posner
On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: Your LSAQ TJohnson-TBurris review was just plain odd. Thanks for the plug. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

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2009-06-01 Thread Mayes, Joseph
mailing list list Subject: [LUTE] Re: review Once a professional critic wrote about a recital of mine that my lute sounded like a crackling painting. Untill now I still don't know what substance he was on.xD Op 1 jun 2009, om 14:57 heeft howard posner het volgende geschreven

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2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Winheld
Obviously using you're performance as practice material for the next Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. There is a choking quality of nocturnal obscuration in this instrument which suits you and this hopefully-painfully numbly depressive declamation of exquisite

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2009-06-01 Thread Ed Durbrow
Not exactly ALL lute, but here are a couple I'm pretty proud of: Hi again Ed, I Wish You Happiness is out of this world! I wonder if SMAP would want to bring it into their repertoire? I can imagine that anyone getting married would insist on having that song as part of their celebration. .. and

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
, June 01, 2009 10:24 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: review I once had a reviewer say that I played music from largely bygone centuries any idea what that means? JM __ From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu on behalf of Lex van Sante

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2009-06-01 Thread Donatella Galletti
Subject: [LUTE] Re: review I rather like this, and might take is as an autojustification, as it implies that the past is still alive, at least in part. RT - Original Message - From: Mayes, Joseph ma...@rowan.edu To: Lex van Sante lvansa...@wanadoo.nl; lute mailing list list lute

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2009-06-01 Thread chriswilke
Composer/organist Max Reger had the best response to a bad review when he wrote to his reviewer: I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me. CW --- On Mon, 6/1/09, Rob MacKillop luteplay...@googlemail.com wrote:

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2009-06-01 Thread howard posner
On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:15 AM, chriswi...@yahoo.com wrote: Composer/organist Max Reger had the best response to a bad review when he wrote to his reviewer: I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me. Reger was actually

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2009-06-01 Thread Stephen Fryer
Rob MacKillop wrote: I've had favourable and unfavourable reviews over the years, but this one is in a category of its own: There is a choking quality of nocturnal obscuration in this instrument which suits you and this hopefully-painfully numbly depressive declamation of

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2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Winheld
Is it true that Mark Twain actually wrote: Wagner's music isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.? (Now THAT is clear, concise, communicative writing!) -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

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2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Winheld
I once had a reviewer say that I played music from largely bygone centuries any idea what that means? Joe, it means that at least some of your music was from smallish non-gone centuries Do you still have the program? -- To get on or off this list see list information at

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
Who knows, but his music was my own gateway drug that let me here. RT From: Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net Is it true that Mark Twain actually wrote: Wagner's music isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.? (Now THAT is clear, concise, communicative writing!) -- To get on or off this

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
Howard, before you really set out to position yourself as a shallow critic: you should at least try to acquaint yourself with Reger's music (a lot of it is rather grand, FYI...). You may even try some on your baroque lute, if you have scruples: http://polyhymnion.org/swv/images/REGER.pdf RT

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
Actually I found it rather sociopathic. RT On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: Your LSAQ TJohnson-TBurris review was just plain odd. Thanks for the plug. -- Your LSAQ TJohnson-TBurris review was just plain odd. RT From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com The Los Angeles

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
meant LED me. RT - Original Message - From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net To: Lutelist lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:00 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: review Who knows, but his music was my own gateway drug that let me here. RT From: Daniel Winheld dwinh

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2009-06-01 Thread howard posner
On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: before you really set out to position yourself as a shallow critic: you should at least try to acquaint yourself with Reger's music (a lot of it is rather grand, FYI...). If I set out to position myself as any kind of critic, I'll do it by

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
- From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 4:35 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: review On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote: before you really set out to position yourself as a shallow critic: you should at least

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2009-06-01 Thread howard posner
On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: These are HOWARD POSNER'S OWN words about Reger: Nice to see my name in bigger type than Reger's. Nonetheless, this is the only famous thing Reger ever wrote, far outstripping any of his music. It even conveyed a bit of immortality on

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2009-06-01 Thread Roman Turovsky
From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com On Jun 1, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: These are HOWARD POSNER'S OWN words about Reger: Nice to see my name in bigger type than Reger's. That's what happens when lawyers lose vigilance about what they commit to e-mail. Nonetheless,

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2009-06-01 Thread chriswilke
extraordinary than excellent.) Chris --- On Mon, 6/1/09, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote: From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com Subject: [LUTE] Re: review To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu Net lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 4:35 PM On Jun 1, 2009, at 9

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2009-06-01 Thread Craig Robert Pierpont
for the fun of it, but his bon mot are too valuable to waste. all in good fun, Craig --- On Mon, 6/1/09, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote: From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com Subject: [LUTE] Re: review To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu Net lute