Klarinet Archive - Posting 000072.txt from 2007/12

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] The library of congress website
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:38:16 -0500

Doesn't that just frost you?!

When Dan first announced the "new chapter" (I think that's what the
l.o.c. calls it), I went right there and it evidently wasn't there
yet. A while later I tried again with no luck.

Anyway, with Tony's critique I won't bother again, but it certainly
doesn't speak well for someone's judgment at the l.o.c.

Thinking that there might have been "a problem that prevented the
l.o.c. from mounting the entire performance of K. 361 on their
website (I read "copyright")" I was going to say with no little
amusement, "Next time use my edition. I've declared it to be in the
public domain," but I think Tony may be right, that someone at the
l.o.c. decided that K.361 can't stand on its own. A sad commentary
indeed (unless, of course, there was a drop-out on one of the
microphones. That does happen from time to time.)

Oliver

At 10:25 AM 12/14/2007, Tony wrote, in part:

>It starts off with two idiots singing and marvelling to each other. We then
>get a three minute bit of K361 that can be connected to the movie they
>discuss, and then cut to, I suppose, forty minutes of Dan's talk, including
>his near-fainting in the presence of the manuscript and making jokes about
>mayonnaise.
>
>We may, or may not, have played the piece well. But the producers of the
>programme (note, two m's and an e, rot your eyes) understood very well that
>such a thing as K361 in isolation can't hack it. You do much better with
>people talking in a show-biz way about how wonderful something is than
>presenting that something -- which of course, in this case, might turn out to
>seem quite ordinary to the general consumer.
>
>So it goes.
>
>Tony

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