Klarinet Archive - Posting 000153.txt from 2008/12

From: "MICHAEL MARMER LINDA MARMER" <mlmarmer@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: If Mozart Were Alive Today...
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:18:29 -0500

The term rap could mean anything actually.

I just got a Neil Young CD of a concert from 1968 and the term Rap is used
for the tracks of talk between songs.

Yes, I know what Rap refers to today, as I am not a fan of rap, but someone
called it rubbish in a email here.

To a fan of Rap it is not, as he might think Mozart is rubbish, etc.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 5:31 PM
Subject: [kl] Re: If Mozart Were Alive Today...

> On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:23:27 -0500, Alexander Brash
> <brash@-----.edu> wrote:
>> A friend of mine posed this to me the other week - if the "greats" of
>> yesteryear were alive today, what sort of music would they be
>> composing, if any?
>>
>> My hunch is that they'd be rappers. Agree/disagree?
>>
>
> No way. Peter is right. Rap is for librettists, like W. S. Gilbert.
> It doesn't have nearly enough opportunities for creative expression in
> the melodic arena.
>
> Bach would probably be doing church music, just as he did during his
> life. Just imagine him exploring the edges of choral music under
> today's rules, the way Morten Lauridsen does.
>
> Rossini could compete with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Broadway stage.
> I agree with Roger, placing Beethoven as John Williams.
>
> Vivaldi would be pumping out pablum hits for the pop stars of today.
>
> Would Mozart have beaten John Cage to compositions like 4'33"?
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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