“We couldn’t hear 20th century music. We couldn’t find the scores of Bartók and Stravinsky and Schubert.”
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From this LA Times article, Chinese composers’ great leap forward.
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Oct 05
Oct 04
“We hypothesise that excessive confectionery consumption [in childhood] increases the likelihood of violence in adulthood.”
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From a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, reported in this LA Times article.
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Oct 03
“my pop colleagues have just mentioned the hurling of bottles of piss as an unpleasant possibility – not that I want to give opera audiences any ideas”
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Charlotte Higgins discusses booing at the Royal Opera House in this Guardian article.
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Oct 02
“I initially get five minutes of anger, and then I’m immediately back to work again saying ‘I’ll show those SOBs.”
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Composer David Cope, quoted in this article reacting to criticism of Composer Emily Howell, a computer program which Cope wrote.
Sentiments like that were the reason I gave up composing (back in the 90s.)
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Sep 29
“Get $1 worth of MP3 downloads from Amazon MP3 after you order your item.”
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In this case “your item” is the $789.98 90-disc complete recordings of Yo Yo Ma. Such an incentive, a discount of over one tenth of one percent.
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Sep 27
Wired
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Sep 26
FACE
TREE
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Corporate
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Sep 25
“The wig goes on. With you or without you.”
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Former Metropolitan Opera General Manager Joseph Volpe to a soprano who complained about her wig. Quoted in this NYTimes article
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Sep 24
AND
WAS
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Sep 23
“He was extremely eccentric. He was avant-garde in his dress; he didn’t wear any socks.”
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Terry Riley, speaking about La Monte Young, quoted in “Terry Riley’s In C” by Robert Carl
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Sep 22
Day Light
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Sep 21
“In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face.”
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From a 1968 paper by Robert W. Taylor suggesting ARPAnet, the forerunner of this here Internet. Quoted in this LA Times article
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Sep 20
Owl’s Eyes
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Sep 19
“On the iPod, music is freed from all fatuous self-definitions and delusions of significance.”
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Critic Alex Ross in this New Yorker article.
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