Klarinet Archive - Posting 000953.txt from 2001/10

From: The Guy on the Couch <jnohe@-----.Edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wooden bells
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:23:42 -0500

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Daniel Leeson wrote:

> Funny you should ask. I wrote a piece (rejected by The New Yorker) and
> which was intended to demonstrate that Yes, We Have No Bananas was a far
> better work than Beethoven's 9th. Would you like to hold a contrary
> position to that assertion?

Not having heard the piece, I can't really take a stand on one side of the
issue or the other. (I certainly believe the Nine to be a great work, but
I hold other works in greater esteem...Dvorak's Nine, for one...but since
I would be comparing that which I know against that which I do not, I
would be just a little more than foolish to engage you, no? *grin* )

J. Shouryu Nohe
Grad Assistant, New Mexico State University
"I think we have a ghost in our house." - Kaycee Nicole
"I should probably be playing Buffet." - Steve Moore

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