Klarinet Archive - Posting 000830.txt from 2001/09

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Bernstein Sonata/Audience & performer (was: Cage knocks)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 06:48:29 -0400

Hi Jim,

We used to have a commercial 'dance band' arranger working in one of the
publishing houses in London in the `40`s(?)/50`s and 60`s. He must be
directing the great 'dance band' in the sky now. He had a reputation for
churning out quite boringly, and typically English 'swing' charts at a rate
of knots so fast that one wondered if he had a custom designed 'template'
placed on his desk, where he just 'traced' the previous arr. through, then
altered just a 'few' notes.

There was also a 'standing' joke which used to feature as a cartoon
sometimes in the popular music mags of the day, which showed this 'so called
arranger' pinning his manuscript paper onto a wall, then retreating several
steps back to where his desk was situated, dipping his pen in the ink, and
then flicking the ink onto the mss paper. Wherever the ink caught the paper
was then the arr. taking shape. Now THIS METHOD could have a future me
thinks facetiously.

Best,
Tony W.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Re: Bernstein Sonata/Audience & performer (was: Cage knocks)

> This may simply prove how provincial my tastes are, but if 4'33" and the
> other period of silence pieces aren't intended as humor, they've missed a
> good chance. They seem rather similar to the young woman who is showing
and
> marketing art that she has "painted" by squirting various colors onto
> aluminum foil. She then sits in it with no clothes on. Then, to create
her
> "art," she "rolls" her bottom region across a canvass in the same manner
the
> police use to roll a fingerprint; i.e., from side to side in one motion.
> IMHO, not only is it not art, and despite the fact that pressure of her
body
> tends to make it appear "spread", she doesn't seem to have a very
attractive
> derriere. (They don't appear pornographic; just ... bizarre.) She's
> making money, though, since people are buying these canvasses.
>
> I wouldn't have one of the canvasses on my wall. I wouldn't pay for a
> ticket to not hear 4'33". I think they're both bizarre. Neither are
> art/music.
>
> Jim
>
> > Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright) wrote:
>
> > Without meaning any offense, it seems to me that 4'33" is an
> > amusing gag.
>
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