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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: A friendly and charming defense of "Modernism" by a friendly and charming composer posted by jdaniel@jps.net on May 8, 2016 at 11:16:43:
I have a friend whose parents were close to Copland, Bernstein and their crowd. These were not high priests living on some isolated mountaintop who cared nothing what the plebians thought about their music. Copland as well as Bernstein wrote for Hollywood and Broadway. Copland conducted (though not as much as Bernstein), and both wanted people to buy tickets.
But they drew a sharp distinction between what they and their colleagues were doing and what Copland refers to as music used as a couch, or what might be called the concept of "easy listening", though not limited to the genre the music business later actually labeled easy listening.
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- You put it well, as does he. - rbolaw 12:29:02 05/08/16 (28)
- Hmm. . . your post gets me to thinking (always dangerous!). . . - Chris from Lafayette 23:52:10 05/08/16 (27)
- You've become a Two-Trick Pony- - oldmkvi 08:24:18 05/09/16 (2)
- BTW, you forgot some of my other tricks: Shostakovich, Eurotrash, Isaac Stern, Barenboim. . . [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 08:59:30 05/10/16 (0)
- Hey, man, it's all good! - Chris from Lafayette 09:44:23 05/09/16 (0)
- RE: Hmm. . . your post gets me to thinking (always dangerous!). . . - rbolaw 07:45:54 05/09/16 (23)
- We're talking at cross purposes here - Chris from Lafayette 08:38:57 05/09/16 (22)
- RE: We're talking at cross purposes here - learsfool 19:34:05 05/09/16 (21)
- OK - but I don't agree on either point - Chris from Lafayette 22:31:22 05/09/16 (20)
- RE: OK - but I don't agree on either point - learsfool 19:39:47 05/10/16 (3)
- The problem is not the dissonance - it's the whole approach and limitations of serialism - Chris from Lafayette 23:37:40 05/10/16 (2)
- As noted musicologist John McEnroe would say, - rbolaw 08:06:43 05/11/16 (1)
- I AM serious: it's hard to believe, but that was the plot of the movie! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 08:16:58 05/11/16 (0)
- WTF? Since when is not writing "easy listening" music a defect? - Rick W 13:58:08 05/10/16 (14)
- OK - Time for me to define my terms again - Chris from Lafayette 00:19:54 05/11/16 (1)
- Aha! Now I understand where you're comin' from. - Rick W 08:33:46 05/11/16 (0)
- Right on. And as good a definition of "easy listening" as any - - rbolaw 15:35:59 05/10/16 (11)
- Yeah - well, that's not what I mean by "easy listening" - See above - Chris from Lafayette 00:33:01 05/11/16 (10)
- Now, that's just nuts. - rbolaw 12:50:56 05/11/16 (9)
- I think you're grasping - Chris from Lafayette 22:22:06 05/11/16 (8)
- I'm not grasping -- you're wringing. ;-) - rbolaw 07:51:52 05/12/16 (7)
- That's a heartfelt response, and I do respect your personal musical journey - Chris from Lafayette 09:46:10 05/12/16 (6)
- RE: That's a heartfelt response, and I do respect your personal musical journey - learsfool 18:12:12 05/12/16 (0)
- "A temporary dip" - rbolaw 10:56:58 05/12/16 (3)
- What got cut out of my attempted edit - Chris from Lafayette 16:52:39 05/12/16 (2)
- Oh man, I am so done with this thread. That's just nasty. nt - rbolaw 18:24:02 05/12/16 (1)
- But I've got more! - Chris from Lafayette 23:16:46 05/12/16 (0)
- Our server chokes again with diacritical marks - click on the date of my post just above {nt] - Chris from Lafayette 10:06:35 05/12/16 (0)
- Nor I with yours - rbolaw 09:11:23 05/10/16 (0)
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