Klarinet Archive - Posting 000172.txt from 2005/06

From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] re: Somehow I passed my own test
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 08:23:14 -0400

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Somehow I passed my own test
Message-ID: <FJEKIMDEOJFJPBKBMDOPGENGDHAA.dnleeson@-----.net>

I was asked to listen to a performance of a work that I had never
heard, and didn't know who wrote it. It's "Gnarly Buttons" and
after five minutes of it I got mad as hell because it seemed so
very repetitions and never went anywhere. Then, later I found
out that it was Adams, and I concluded that maybe my ear has not
gone completely south because I never liked anything of Adams for
exactly that reason. So hearing a work of his out of the blue
and coming to same conclusion, I felt that maybe I'm not dead
yet.

Dan Leeson

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Dan, I feel a lot like that at the ICA Conventions with much of the atonal,
ultra modern academic trash that is played at those so often.

David Blumberg
http://www.mytempo.com

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