Hello to you all In the wake of the continuing debate about Beethoven and punk rock and the various "positions" which many of you seem to be adopting I thought...
Dear All Oh boy what interesting postings... Emerging from end of year exams and the opportunity to draw breath I felt moved to break e-silence! Give me a...
Susan
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Dec 1, 2004 5:11 pm
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... importance, rather than holding the classicists up as somehow nobler. My response is that I too enjoy them equally as listening experiences - but there are...
... Great to read another perspective on the healing uses of music. I'm interested in how the different qualities and styles of music affect the experience and...
tim hall
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Dec 2, 2004 12:08 pm
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... nobler. ... I think this is a very good point. I think this argument goes a long way to explain the popularity of bands like 'The Grateful Dead' - just...
tim hall
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Dec 2, 2004 12:27 pm
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Re the 11 year old at Maxwell's school who framed two teachers with such awful and long-lasting consequences: was this in the child's interest?? What...
B Paterson & J Fowler
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Dec 2, 2004 1:47 pm
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Ah, but there's your very proper bias ! Clement...
Clement Jewitt
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Dec 2, 2004 3:59 pm
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... Dear George, your stories are always saturated with meaningfulness. Thank you. All best Clement...
Clement Jewitt
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Dec 2, 2004 3:59 pm
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Max (or was it Tim?) wrote... ... This is one of the major functions of music which can be fulfilled surely by almost any style or genre depending on the...
Tim - you had a really interesting point about a shamanic approach to putting a gig or musical event together. The passage that caught my ... There was a time...
... Listening to 'The Galliards' LP on my mum's gramophone player. I remember being captivated by the mystery of some of those Scottish folk songs, a mystery...
tim hall
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Dec 3, 2004 12:44 am
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... Yes, I can certainly resonate with that! We have developed a set where certain songs have improvisable sections, which can be used - we tend to feel when a...
tim hall
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Dec 3, 2004 2:10 am
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Many thanks Tim for sending these. If other members would be interested in following suit, I would like to make a collection of musical experiences under these...
... concert programme weeks in advance, and wanting during a performance to go with the moment, and pluck the songs that feel right at the time Ičve written...
Before we finish with Beethoven, folks might be interested in this from Tolstoy's long & intermittently wonderful analysis of art and its function. [Tolstoy...
... within M&P that I have understood ... Reminds me of something I read once "We must build the altar in one place in order that the fire of God may descend...
... My understanding of shamanic thinking is that the messages from different Otherworlds (Lower, Middle or Upper Worlds) appear different on the surface, but...
... Well, I thought of your words as I was constructing my set list for last night. In fact I decided to simply take a list of songs marked simply 'slow' or...
tim hall
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Dec 5, 2004 2:03 pm
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This reminds me of the story that Schoenberg recounts of his experience of the composition of the Orchestral Variations. Having been forced by circumstances to...
Dear Rod, 1. Hearing a recording of Bill Hailey and his Rockers during their 1950s visit to UK. There must have been much earlier ones, but that one sticks, ...
Clement Jewitt
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Dec 5, 2004 10:12 pm
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Ha! - someonelse who read ... maintenance' - another example of an author having some really luminous ideas & not quite knowing how to communicate them to the...
Yay! ... I've been re-reading the Bible slowly (I use an ecumenical study version of the RSV with a good apocrypha) since being doorstepped by Jehovah's...
tim hall
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Dec 6, 2004 3:56 pm
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Rod, I love your story of Schoenberg reconstructing a compositional solution from logic, having first reached it through intuition. This kind of thing has...
I had a fascinating experience last Saturday. Some members of the Oxford Improvisation Group, which I loosley belong to, staged a "performance" of Cornelius...
... Respect! 'Treatise' has to be one of the most beautiful and thought-provoking scores I have ever seen. That, only in part and a long time ago. The...
tim hall
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Dec 7, 2004 9:40 am
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"If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong." - Simon Rattle...
Clement Jewitt
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Dec 7, 2004 3:37 pm
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... to an osteopath, then there's something wrong." - Simon Rattle What a worldview *that* encapsulates!! ... something that was a revelation for me was...
Maxwell wrote: something that was a revelation for me was hearing Rasta Ralph of Nyabingi reading the Psalms at the 03 Big Green Gathering. Since then I can...
Clement Jewitt
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Dec 8, 2004 5:17 pm
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Hello all I was equally dismayed by the Simon Rattle quotation. What a profoundly careless thing to say. It is in the same category as a (male) singing teacher...
Clement wrote: # Have you heard Neil Douglas-Klotz reading the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic? I might guess it doesnt quite achieve the energetic fervour of a...
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