Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 2003/07

From: Gil Guerrero <gilster@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Passion for Music was Peanuts Hucko
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:36:32 -0400

I'm feeling feisty this morning! These seem like fun waters, LET'S DIVE IN!

Now, after railing against anonymity and the perils of internet
criticism, I suppose that we will start in on how good the good old
days were and how poopy the new old days are.

All you "Old timers": there are at least two (or even three) of us in
the US below 50 who know who Peanuts, Satch, and even Miff Mole were
(and possibly even knew in our teens.) Does that mean everybody does?
No. Does it mean that every popular artist who happens to be blowing
the hottest thing will meet the test of time? No. People are already
asking who Britney Spears was.

People who are really interested in music DISCOVER this music in
their explorations. Music Lovers understand that there is more music
on earth than what Clear Channel decides to broadcast (or what was
composed between XXXX and XXXX, insert your own favorite century),
and they go looking for it.

If you're "sad" about people not knowing about this music, what are
you doing to expose people to it? Are you supporting your local jazz
station? Are you phoning in requests to your jazz station to hear
this music? Do you go see it played when it's in your area? Are you
listening to NEW artists? One of the biggest problems today is that
labels don't care to nurture young players when they can sell you a
third release of the same back-catalog titles. It's money in the
bank, no recording session! This is the same problem that classical
music has: why should we record Beethoven 9th again when Solti,
Klemperer, <Insert your favorite composer here>, have already done it.

If you're doing all those things. you've earned the right to
complain; everybody else should sit quietly. I voted in the last
election and earned the right to complain, if you stayed home - you
got what you deserved. So few choose to do anything about it, to
"evangelize" this music, that it withers. The reason orchestras are
going out of business is that so few are doing outreach into schools,
exposing NEW people to this music, and trying to keep it VITAL.
Everything seems to stop at Rimsky-Korsakov (or Mahler, or <insert
the name of your favorite most recent composer>)

How about programming programming some doses of contemporary works
that could act as a hook and suggest -gasp- that there has been
interesting music composed in the last century. Why do I have to see
La Boheme again? For the 5th time? Why can't I see Nixon in China?
Why do I have to hear "The Four Seasons" again? How come nobody
programs "Music for Mallet Instruments?" If the water is trapped and
still, it stagnates...

Harold, I might warn: you're running with a rough crowd. Dan and
Anthony are into bareknuckled verbal pugilism. Your sentiment is
innocuous enough, but I wouldn't start talking about politics, key
signature, or "dark tone!"

Stepping (passionately) off the soapbox, and arming my phasers to disintegrate!

Eddie Condom was the little guy on the prophylactic wrapper. Didn't
he have a Roman helmet or something?

LOL.

Gil (we think it's Gil 'cause he typed Gil)

> Sadly -- Most folk today below the age of 50 think
> Louis Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon
> HAROLD TROUGHTON
>
>>From: "Anthony Wakefield" Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org To:
>>Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Peanuts Hucko Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:14:04
>>+0100
>>
>>> Dan, > > Thank you for re-posting the sad news. For the past two
>>>weeks or so I've > been doing wholesale deletions of the
>>>Klarinet-Digests even before reading them. > Unfortunately,
>>>subscribers to the digest mode don't have the luxury of > blocking
>>>individual messages. You realize, of course, that 90% of the
>>>current > people on the list have no clue as to Peanuts Hucko was,
>>>and the other 10% think he > was Buffalo Bob's sidekick on Howdy
>>>Doody. Want to fill them in? > > Don Gross > La Canada,
>>>California > > p.s. And who was this Eddie Condom fellow?
>>
>>Follow that.
>>

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