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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2004/11

From: Oboeeee@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:25:00 -0500

Hi Pat!

LOL! (ahem) I had to look it up myself. The definition is quite=20
vague---"the science of signs in general." This is all just part of my nigh=
tly homework=20
on the QOD. Now...it's time to shift gears and ensure that all chocolates a=
re=20
properly placed under the pillows of my baroque musicians arriving on=20
Thursday for the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra concert this Sunday, November 21=20=
at 3:00=20
p.m., Peachtree Road United Methodist Church in=20
Buckhead...www.atlantabaroque.org.

BRAVO from YOUR loge!

Janie
Vice President for Development
Atlanta Baroque Orchestra

But............ just what IS a semiologist?? Half an ologist?

Patrick McFarland, English horn & Oboe
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
McFarland Double Reed Shop
McFarlandDoubleReed.com
404-351-4500 - phone
404-355-8983 - fax
----- Original Message -----=20
From: <Oboeeee@-----.com>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: [DR-L] Quote of the Day

"The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the
inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage=20
to remain
silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts,=20
movies,
presenters=E2=80=94there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise=
there
would be an irremediable void.... That=E2=80=99s why the slightest technical=
hitch,=20
the
slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it
reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little=20
window."

-Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929) French semiologist
"Cool Memories," ch. 4

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