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- Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:00 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: metro cards nyc end
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6259
Re: metro cards nyc end
and how much revenue do they stand to lose in money loaded on unspent metro cards? I have probably half a dozen with a few bucks each on them
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:40 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Who is the most recent composer to have entered The Canon?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 27156
Re: Who is the most recent composer to have entered The Cano
Okay, I just figured this out. Google reference count, using first and last name. Brian Ferneyhough - 145,000 Oscar Golijov - 224,000 Ernest Chausson - 352,000 Dmitri Shostakovich - 382,000 Aaron Copland - 483,000 Frederic Chopin - 1,470,000 Joseph Haydn - 10,600,000 Ludwig van Beethoven - 15,400,0...
- Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:32 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: can anyone convert a 2010 Finale file to MusicXML?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4708
Re: can anyone convert a 2010 Finale file to MusicXML?
I can do it - email it to scbrowne <at> gmail.com
- Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:30 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Who is the most recent composer to have entered The Canon?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 27156
Re: Who is the most recent composer to have entered The Cano
First proposition: the 'canon' is determined by performers not audiences. Composers whose music gets championed by leading performers is the quality test
Based on this Ferneyhough or Finnissy would be the most recent
Based on this Ferneyhough or Finnissy would be the most recent
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 3:40 pm
- Forum: CMG Review of Books
- Topic: It Can't Happen Here (but it can)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9726
Re: It Can't Happen Here (but it can)
another classic along the same lines
- Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:01 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Music business has lost billions
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14560
Re: Music business has lost billions
Once we needed the recording industry because making and distributing quality recordings was an industrial process. Now anyone can cheaply make and distribute a quality recording, the challenge is marketing in a crowded marketplace. For a brief period with the CD the music industry got the best of b...
- Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:55 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CDs Always in Stock
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16638
Re: CDs Always in Stock
Well Amazon does not run out of digital versions because every time one is downloaded an Amazon employee in their digital warehouse quickly orders a replacement copy from the publisher Do you know that for a fact? After all, if Amazon.com has one copy in digital format on its server, it can technic...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:51 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CDs Always in Stock
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16638
Re: CDs Always in Stock
I can't tell the difference between Amazon's 320k MP3 compression and cd audio on my equipment (which in total has a low 4 digit price tag - so decent but not audiophile crazy - and there are numerous double blind studies that tend to show that very few people can tell the difference even in more hi...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 8:21 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CDs Always in Stock
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16638
Re: CDs Always in Stock
Well Amazon does not run out of digital versions because every time one is downloaded an Amazon employee in their digital warehouse quickly orders a replacement copy from the publisher - because the digital versions travel to Amazon so much quicker - at speeds of 400 million miles per hour instead o...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:46 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: CDs Always in Stock
- Replies: 16
- Views: 16638
Re: CDs Always in Stock
And I have yet to see Amazon run out of any of the digital versions of their music or books
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 4:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Help with Max Reger music?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9681
Re: Help with Max Reger music?
Reger tried to fuse post-Wagnerian chromaticism with traditional forms, the numerous sets of variations are a good place to start, particularly the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart op.132 The Clarinet Quintet is one of his most respected works and the String Quartets are worth the effort Th...
- Thu Mar 17, 2016 12:56 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Happy 70th Birthday to Michael Finnissy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5647
Happy 70th Birthday to Michael Finnissy
https://johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/birthday-playlist-for-finnissy-at-70/ Few living composers have an output as large and as diverse as Michael Finnissy does. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, I’ve tried to reflect that in a little playlist, along with some brief thoughts on what I...
- Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:21 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Her Royal Highness has passed away
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3903
Her Royal Highness has passed away
Speaking of course about Joan Bates, Princess of Sealand
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ed-86.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ed-86.html
- Wed Mar 16, 2016 12:28 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: North Carolina and the Politics of Barbecue
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7308
Re: North Carolina and the Politics of Barbecue
Kreuz market in Lockhart is the real deal, so the NYC branch ought to be legit Houston is privileged in that there are any number of quality BBQ joints plus a deli nt far from my office which is as good as anything in NYC http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-deli-man-feature-20150305...
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 6:18 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Holy Black Square
- Replies: 37
- Views: 31083
Re: Holy Black Square
If you read an economics textbook you learn that efficient market sets the price of a commodity just above the production cost. If it doesn't - it does not work. that is not so. The definition of an efficient market is one that does not allow risk-free arbitrage, prices reflect all available inform...
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:26 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Holy Black Square
- Replies: 37
- Views: 31083
Re: Holy Black Square
Like this http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2458 We analyze the time pattern of the activity of a serial killer, who during twelve years had murdered 53 people. The plot of the cumulative number of murders as a function of time is of "Devil's staircase" type. The distribution of the intervals between murder...
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 11:24 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Holy Black Square
- Replies: 37
- Views: 31083
Re: Holy Black Square
Not that difficult to tell Kadinsky or Pollock from an ape.
- Sat Feb 20, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The weird global appeal of heavy metal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7956
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:29 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The weird global appeal of heavy metal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7956
Re: The weird global appeal of heavy metal
how can anyone not like this
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:07 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Charles Koch: Here is where Bernie Sanders is Right
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9894
Re: Charles Koch: Here is where Bernie Sanders is Right
with the ACLUlennygoran wrote:Where does he stand on Citizens United? Regards, Len
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The weird global appeal of heavy metal
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7956
The weird global appeal of heavy metal
not weird to me, but to the WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-weird-global-appeal-of-heavy-metal-1455819419 Today’s “world music” isn’t Peruvian pan flutes or African talking drums. It’s loud guitars, growling vocals and ultrafast “blast” beats. Heavy metal has become the unlikely soundtrack of g...
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:54 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Charles Koch: Here is where Bernie Sanders is Right
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9894
Charles Koch: Here is where Bernie Sanders is Right
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-koch-this-is-the-one-issue-where-bernie-sanders-is-right/2016/02/18/cdd2c228-d5c1-11e5-be55-2cc3c1e4b76b_story.html The senator is upset with a political and economic system that is often rigged to help the privileged few at the expense of everyone el...
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:02 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Grammys Feb. 15, 2016-Classical Music Winners-Really?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11781
Re: Grammys Feb. 15, 2016-Classical Music Winners-Really?
Apparently no mention of Boulez's passing despite the fact that he received 26 Grammy's
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:01 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Thomas L. Friedman: Who Are We?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6722
Re: Thomas L. Friedman: Who Are We?
The infrastructure bit is a canard made up by the American Society of Civil Engineers which is nothing more than a lobbying group representing the self-interest of its members. Politicians like Sanders of course love infrastructure spending because it gives them more power through having contracts t...
- Sun Feb 14, 2016 3:12 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: So - what's on your TO GET list on CDs in 2016?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 39489
Re: So - what's on your TO GET list on CDs in 2016?
Ripped all my CDs up to the cloud a couple of years ago and haven't looked back.
Eagerly awaiting Ian Pace's complete Ferneyhough release
Eagerly awaiting Ian Pace's complete Ferneyhough release
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 5:11 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The Libertarian case for Bernie Sanders
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4976
The Libertarian case for Bernie Sanders
Actually not much of one. The Scandinavian countries are actually much more business-friendly than the US is currently and way more so than Sanders would have it. The lesson Bernie Sanders needs to learn is that you cannot finance a Danish-style welfare state without free markets and large tax incre...
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 3:07 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Holy Black Square
- Replies: 37
- Views: 31083
Re: Holy Black Square
I easily got 100% correct on the artist or ape test, so does that disprove your point?
the average person cant tell the difference between Thomas Kincade and JWM Turner or between Andrew Botacelli and Pavarotti singing Verdi, so what?
the average person cant tell the difference between Thomas Kincade and JWM Turner or between Andrew Botacelli and Pavarotti singing Verdi, so what?
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 2:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Golden Shower of Musicology
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13075
Re: The Golden Shower of Musicology
I didn't think he was writing about Danae and Zeus. :D Sorry, I think that piece is just a pile of invective for its own sake, attack rather than argument, and a waste of ink. The author, who hides behind the pseudonym "Throwcase," has written all kinds of frivolous stuff - see here: http://www.thr...
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 1:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Classical music performance: come è scritto or not?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22726
Re: Classical music performance: come è scritto or not?
Another point - the composer is not the final word on his composition -the community of performers is. Prokofiev is within living memory - why has no one played his works like the example above? Why is prokofiev even considered worthy of performance? The answer to both questions is that the performi...
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 10:57 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Classical music performance: come è scritto or not?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22726
Re: Classical music performance: come è scritto or not?
The golden shower rebuke is well deserved - the diversity and quality of musical performances available today, either through recordings or concerts, dwarfs anything in the past. Music seems to be the only art that has this fetish about past performing practice. I do not see arguments for a lost gol...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:07 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: So if Citizens United was supposed to destroy our democracy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5486
Re: So if Citizens United was supposed to destroy our democr
The notion that while the government cannot ban a book based on its content but can restrict the expenditure of the funds necessary to publish the book is the ridiculous and unconstitutional canard of 'money = speech' that the court wisely threw out
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Classical music performance: come è scritto or not?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22726
Re: Classical music performance: come è scritto or not?
I think Taruskin commented on the HIP movement something to the effect of 'its not historically accurate, but sounds good anyway' which would go with the golden shower bloggers point. I prefer Berman's more straight rhythm, but am an unrepentant modernist and not much of a Prokofiev fan. For contemp...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 5:35 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: So if Citizens United was supposed to destroy our democracy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5486
So if Citizens United was supposed to destroy our democracy
through corporate money spending unlimited amounts on campaign ads, why are Sanders and Trump doing so well? Or perhaps we should be grateful to the Supreme Court for protecting the First Amendment against needless fear-mongering and self-interested incumbent politicians wanting to further entrench ...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 12:11 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Stupor Bowl 50
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18347
Re: Stupor Bowl 50
I respectfully disagree that the Roman Empire did not decline. As years went by, the currency was debased, inflation and public debt rose, the general public was passive and increasingly failed to participate or protest (this was the origin of the satirist Juvenal's phrase "panem et cirenses"), pub...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 4:32 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Stupor Bowl 50
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18347
Re: Stupor Bowl 50
I agree that football will be dead in a generation Not that soon, if ever. It's an economic powerhouse for the owners, for television, for colleges and universities, and other vested interests, and there's no other sport or programming to take its place on autumn and winter Saturday and Sunday afte...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 3:56 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Stupor Bowl 50
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18347
Re: Stupor Bowl 50
Sports advertising has become much more valuable in recent years as these events have become just about the only thing that people watch live anymore. Makes sense that companies would allocate their marketing budgets accordingly. The real scam is the taxpayer dollars that go to subsidize stadiums. A...
- Thu Feb 04, 2016 1:53 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Golden Shower of Musicology
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13075
The Golden Shower of Musicology
Had to click on that, didnt you? Excellent takedown of these classical music has gone to hell in a handbasket whine pieces: http://www.throwcase.com/2015/01/20/the-golden-shower-of-musicology/ As a classical musician I have often had to grimace through many incarnations of the argument that classica...
- Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:32 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The most dangerous anti-science movement
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10073
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 2:20 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Iowa: Clinton, Cruz
- Replies: 74
- Views: 36625
Re: Iowa: Clinton, Cruz
Cudos to Cruz for speaking the truth on ethanol rather than pandering like the rest of the candidates
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:54 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
- Replies: 25
- Views: 24113
Re: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
FWIW, Oraison - an earlier ondes martinot version of the Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus from Quatuor pour la fin du temps - is part of the soundtrack to The Revenant
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:28 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
- Replies: 25
- Views: 24113
Re: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
No, jbuck's post is Chang conducting. The interesting thing about messiaen's music is that it really blossomed and became fully realizied after he absorbed post-war modernism. Hindemith never left neoclassicism and stravinsky adopted serial techniques in his own idiosyncratic way. Messiaen produced ...
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:03 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: The most dangerous anti-science movement
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10073
The most dangerous anti-science movement
Not evolution,vaccine or global warming denialism - none of these will potentially deny food to poor people. The most dangerous current anti science movement is anti-GMO hysteria: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/bc-g-081915.php Nina Fedoroff, molecular biologist and former Science and...
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:31 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Do we need a huge military ?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16319
Re: Do we need a huge military ?
should we be surprised that the Pentagon prefers threats that justify spending on new weapons platforms? Europe can defend themselves, tired of our tax dollars subsidizing their welfare programs
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:15 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
- Replies: 25
- Views: 24113
Re: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
My favorite shorter orchestral piece is Couleurs de la Cite Celeste, which is a good intro to the later work
- Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:13 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
- Replies: 25
- Views: 24113
Re: Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie
There is also Kent Nagano, which I have in the Messiaen Edition boxed set of Erato and Teldec recordings: http://www.amazon.com/Messiaen-Edition-18CD-Olivier/dp/B000A2ACWO But the Myung Whun Chang is the one to have if push comes to shove. I love the work, but think his later orchestral pieces like ...
- Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:23 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Werner Herzog's Gesualdo Documentary
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3402
- Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:50 am
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: GMO Franken Trees to take over Northeast
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3839
GMO Franken Trees to take over Northeast
Just being sarcastic in the headline, scientists have genetically engineered the tree to come back and withstand the fungus that nearly killed it off. American chestnut trees were once among the most majestic hardwood trees in the eastern deciduous forests, many reaching 80 to 120 feet in height and...
- Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:48 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Liberals are Simple-Minded
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3628
Liberals are Simple-Minded
http://reason.com/archives/2016/01/15/liberals-are-simple-minded Not suprisingly, those psychological studies that purport to show conservatives as simple minded and dogmatic are biased. When corrected for liberal dogmatic hotpoints, like environmentalism, Liberals measure to be equally simple minde...
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: The Great Classical Mash-Up
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4136
Re: The Great Classical Mash-Up
Where is Xenakis?
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 2:54 pm
- Forum: Corner Pub
- Topic: Jokes So Awful They Could Provoke You To Murder
- Replies: 163
- Views: 77471
Re: Jokes So Awful They Could Provoke You To Murder
Two 9-11 truthers are walking down the street when a drunk driver runs over and kills them. As the stand at the Heavenly gates, God asks "Any questions before you enter?" "Yes, what Reeaally happened on 9-11?"' One asks "Well", God says, "Some Muslim terrorists hijacked some airliners and crashed th...