Hi Nathaniel, ... You hit the nail right on the head -- this is exactly the reason why i structured this history as a chronology. I've read a lot about music...
... funny coincidence. we were just discussing elsewhere whether oberon or euryanthe was the more unjustly neglected opera. there are mahler versions of both....
... In the end one cannot but feel that Verdi remains Verdi. To subordinate verdi to wagner is an overstatement. By the time of verdi's old age, by the time of...
In a message dated 9/24/2005 1:01:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Ah - because (a) "music education" was, especially in Europe, more consistently part of the...
In a message dated 9/25/2005 11:28:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... The only one of these chamber arrangements with which I'm familiar is the DLvdE. Based on...
Yes, its quite an experience isn't it from high altitude to view that... I have often wondered why it took so long for humans to figure out the earth was round...
... But most likely not only the arrangers themselves gained insight but all who participated in the playing and in any way even merely the attendance although...
Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to you all. I've been a Mahler fan for a long time, but lately, maybe due to recent events in my life, I've ...
... Hi Richard, You have started with a bang. What Bernstein recordings do you have? The DVD of the M8 is a great thing to hear and behold. The DG recording is...
... But so was Latin and Greek part of the standard curriculum and most likely very little of what makes the world go around today was part of the standard...
On 10/1/05, Yoel L. Arbeitman <je_suis_enee@...> wrote: <snip> ... I don't want to get into the virtues and utility (or not) of reductions, though I...
... Right in both instances, Steve. I think that music education was a casualty to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and vanished into the graveyeard...
... Great, Don, I wholly agree with you. The example that I mentioned was one of W.J.`s examples, and probably at the time when we wrote it it had more...
In a message dated 10/1/2005 11:40:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... The irony being that such education in music - indeed, in fine arts of any kind - is...
... whenever I hear the name William James, I think of the discovery that he made under-- was it-- laughing gas. He had a great revelation given unto him and,...
Thus spake Steve Vasta (Stevevasta@...): ... The world's first regular radio service was the British Broadcasting Company's station 2LO in London, which...
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Thus spake Steve Vasta (Stevevasta@...): ... Indeed. Isn't it the case that the majority of US presidents have been connected with a remarkably small...
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Hi Yoel, ... Yes, of course you are right that Verdi is a major composer who deserves recognition on his own terms, and certainly the partnership with Boito...
"Gustavo Parra" <cybertownbog@...> wrote: "Most people in this group would accept that Gustav Mahler spent some years of his life in Hamburg. I am one...
I'd like to offer the suggestion that COMPOSITIONAL "insight" was not the intent for the chamber reductions of Mahler [also Schoenberg, Reger, Debussy and...
... the idea ... background, or ... tasks than ... Why does this subject matter keep popping up? Here's an example, this list is dedicated to a man who, as far...
Of the eight opera's I really like, this is one them - Love that prelude opening! I caught this opera on a "blind-date" at the SF Opera one season. Went from...
... Mahler certainly came from a humble background, but it is also true that his father's liquor business was successful enough that he was able to support his...
... It's interesting that you cite Johnson as an example, and in the process mention Lincoln -- *he* is the President that popped into my mind right away as...
... Wait, Monz, this really bothers me. Verdi was one of the greats and that was long before his work with Boito. This seems to me to be a very patronizing...
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