Klarinet Archive - Posting 000614.txt from 1998/08

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] OFF SUBJECT - Music Survey
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:09:57 -0400

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 16:38:03 -0400 Kevin Moore <khmobo2l@-----.net>
writes:
>Dear Group,
>
> I am sending this survey to several lists. This topic may be
>different from the ones usually under discussion on this list, but I
>hope that you will please indulge me.
>
> With the topics of several disasters in the public eye, such as the
>Titanic disaster and the recent explosion of a Titan missile off the
>coast of Florida, a friend of mine mentioned wishing that all copies
>of
>a certain piece of music or all music of a particular composer had
>been
>on board.
>
>
> My question is:
>
> If you could send all copies of a particular piece or pieces of
>music (or works of a particular composer, etc.) into:
>
> a) outer space

P: Please DO NOT send anything to outer space. It wouldn't be fair to
our alien friends

> b) a spacecraft which might explode after lift off

P: No, No, No! Unmanned only, I hope

> c) the depths of the ocean floor -OR-

P: Music on the ocean floor would give a whole new meaning to the term
"Tune a fish"

> d) some other location, never to be heard from again

P: Why don't you just sell it to a novelty manufacturer who can shred it
and make it into pencils or something?
>
>what music would you choose to send? Try to be as open-minded and
>tolerant as possible and do your best to avoid naming entire
>categories
>of music. Please, however, feel free to name whatever piece or pieces
>that you most wish that we would never have to listen to or play
>again.
>If you desire to do so, feel free to mention the "complete" works of
>any
>composer (or composers), as well as entire categories if you simply
>MUST.

P: Please, Kevin - if there is no garbage to hear, play or ridicule we'd
have no comparison for the stuff we know is good. Don't make us send or
musical trash out! tyvm This was fun!

Paulette

> PLEASE RESPOND TO ME DIRECTLY at the e-mail address listed above
>(as
>the address to "Reply-To"). I do not mind receiving multiple posts
>should you continue to think of additional items, HOWEVER in order to
>prevent the overload of servers of the lists through which you
>received
>this mailing, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THE LIST THROUGH WHICH
>YOU
>RECEIVED THIS E-MAIL.
>
> Write me at: KHMobo2L@-----.net
>
>Appreciatively,
>Kevin H. Moore
>
>
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