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I suggest self publishing.

If he has a lot of money, he can hire performers, though operas can run into big bucks.

Hi Karl.

As you know, in the house of music there are many mansions.

Actually, rock music has one aspect that lends itself very well to classical-paradigm composition: it is built out of small motives rather than full-blown melodies. Well, so is Beethoven. So, often, is Haydn. Michael Jackson doesn't know what to do with these motives other than repeat them over and ...

Oh, I wasn't referring to an earlier era. Diegobueno seemed to be implying that art music was in some kind of serious competition with pop music of the second half of the 20th and now the 21st century. I don't know how you came to that conclusion. What I did say is that this hypothetical music base...

Do let me know when you have the slightest idea how anything like art can arise out of any popular "musical" idiom. Do you think jazz is not art? And I question the premise of your last sentence, which implies that we're trying to convert an audience of Philistines. The point is to nourish the need...

I think that unless someone redefines music beyond recognition with regard to its Western tradition, we've had all the great composers we're ever going to have (not the same as saying all the good ones). The question is, how do we make room for modern creativity in the creation of music in the clas...

I can't say I disliked most of the works but the fact is that clearly few if any had any chance of entering the regular or even occasional repertoire of the Philharmonic. But it's always been the case that few if any works given world premieres were going to enter the standard repertory. For every ...

what do you think is the best brands for flute? Japanese brands like Muramisu and Sankyo is popular here . A flutist friend was good enough to give me the following report: For professional model flutes it can be very subjective, but some of the top names are Brannen Copper flutes (out of Boston), ...

so, are you expert on the flute? That depends on what you want to know. Lance asked me to be the woodwind specialist so that there would be someone here to field questions about woodwinds from those who don't know. I decline the title "expert" because there are going to be times when I don't know t...

If I had it to do all over again, I'd be a cellist. At least I can say I was born on Rostropovich's birthday.

Everybody on the other forums I post on knows me as diegobueno, so I saw no reason to change it here. At the bottom of all my posts is my formal name.

Ghost concert to revive music of the past "The piano will replicate every note struck, down to the velocity of the hammer and position of the key when it was played," the British weekly magazine New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue. The key to the phantom concert lies in the transcription...

Ralph, I liked it a lot, and that's why I gave it a good review.

(Mark G. Simon = diegobueno)

Nothing wrong with "Afro-American Symphony" as a title.

I think it might be unsettling, to say the least, to present Dvorak's String Quartet in F major (commonly known as the "American") under the title it is given as recently as the 5th edition of Groves Dictionary of Music: "N-gger"

Here's a concert I attended recently:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?news ... 6611&rfi=6

I've never heard a bad performance of the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, which is remarkable considering its difficulty. Performers who are not up to it seem to be readily aware of the fact, and those that are put in special dedication to presenting it well. One of the most magical performances I've atten...