Klarinet Archive - Posting 000145.txt from 2004/09

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Klezmer info
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:30:03 -0400

All right, wise guy ; -)
The Swingle Singers would be music of Bach. Pure and simple. Using a
rock beat and syncopating it in quasi-swing rhythm definitely
disqualifies it as Baroque. Stokowski is an ARRANGEMENT. Adding nothing
to it except differing instrumentation makes it Baroque music but not
authentic (as it doesn't use period instruments). Who in the world is
Malloch?

Fred J.

Robert Wood wrote:

> Question: Would Ward Swingle's early album (Bach) be called Baroque
> Style, Baroque Music ? How would Stokowski's Tocatta & Fugue in g
> minor (?) for organ, orchestra, cannons and such, or William
> Malloch's stuff- be categorized.......and could we engrave the
> category on the head of a pin?
> (Fortunately, Bach never loses).
> BW
>
>

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