Klarinet Archive - Posting 000785.txt from 2000/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:55:01 -0500

At 06:20 AM 3/24/2000 -0800, Daniel Leeson wrote:
>Jonathan, the general feeling about musical misinformation is that, once
>it enters into the body of knowledge and by whatever method it got there
>and no matter how wrongheaded it is and no matter what proofs are given
>to show that it is full of doo-doo, no power on earth can ever get it
>out.
>
>It is like a cancer that infects the history of whatever it is the
>cancer has attached itself to. Five hundred years from now, some poor,
>benighted student will play a concert at which the Wagner Adagio will be
>the centerpiece.
>
>There is nothing you can do about it, either.
>
It's just like Urban Legends, only older!

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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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