Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I went to see a Julliard Concert at the Museum of Modern art sculpture garden (free) last month and they were playing Avant Garde music a guy from brazil, the composer had his laptop going with the Julliard instrumentalists and for a long wile it sounded like Madonna.. I was grooving to it. Madonna meets Luciano Berio. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Philippe AMARD <philippe.amard@tele2.fr> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:47:40 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Left-Wing Classical Music? > > A paradox - music wouldn't have evolved had the composers been > conservative - they would have been conservative hence at best > reproductive - so listeners listening to what will become "classical > music" were/are by essence progressive. Now, at any given period, > listening to music of the past may also be felt as conservative. > > My own paradox; my musical tastes are catholic, from ante Monteverdi to > post Philip Glass, and many more, including Madonna. > Regards > ph > > rsphoto's email wrote: > >> Dude: >> >> I'm a 68-year old, Birkenstock-wearing, Prius Driving, ex-Marine >> Landscape Contractor who FORCES his crew to listen to Classical Music >> to and from jobsites! >> >> It's taken about a year, but now one of them knows the difference >> between 3/4 and 6/8. >> >> Other than that, my pickup truck ('95 T-100) radio is glued to NPR, >> buddy. No softball questions during interviews. >> >> Oh yeah - and I'm one of those film-shooting Leica R wierdos, too. >> OKAY? OK. >> >> Cheers! >> >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Marc James Small wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 7, 2008, at 10:38 PM, Marc James Small wrote: >> >>> I did get a grand two-hour remembrance of his work on my local NPR >>> station while whomping up several dozen prints and a couple of rolls >>> of film to boot. >> >> Marc, I am dismayed, nay, shocked to hear that you listen to those NPR >> pinkos. >> >> Does Classical Music have a political spectrum? Pray, tell us more! >> >> Marc >> >> >> msmall@aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > NO ARCHIVE > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information