Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.classica
Titolo: MAAZEL sells out

DECCA has recorded Lorin Maazel, newly designated Music Director of the NYPO, in
an album of LOVE DUETS for violin and pop voice.  The old man plays second
(class) fiddle to Andrea Bocelli.  Any word on the release of this other
"community outreach initiative"?
Religious/racial affinities are purely coincidental, please.  Not so the crass
opportunism and the collapse of artistic integrity.

one would have thought that even in gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby'is native
brothel, practicing onanism in public  is considered bad manners. with so many
prominent jews in the music world, it looks like this psychotic kid will never run
out of targets for his monomaniacal screeds.
dft
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Why is making a popular record "crass opportunism?"  Didn't even
Mozart and Beethoven toss of numerous musical confections along with
their great masterworks?

A hundred years ago [actually 1963] when the record store I shopped at
while in college was loaded with Beatles stuff, I took pretty much the
same snobbish attitude about them until the manager of the store [a
respected classical music connaisseur] remined me that the huge
profits the Beatles took in were financing a significant part of EMI,
and were helping to make that particular store profitable as well. I
guess that caused something of an attitude adjustment with me. 
As for community outreach...well, if it puts fannies in the seats to
pay the bills fine. Nobody said you HAD to buy the stuff.
J. Teske, violinist
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 guess that caused something of an attitude adjustment with me.
Sadly, this sort of business model doesn't happen any more.  Now,
crossover funds...more crossover.
John
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 investment opportunity or Viagra, thank you.
What about triple-X porn?
John

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the least.
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 the least.
But it gives me a chuckle every time I see it.
If I had such a sig, I would include "anything whatsoever in encoded 
Chinese, I language I can not read, write, speak, or understand."
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 the least.
But it gives me a chuckle every time I see it.
If I had such a sig, I would include "anything whatsoever in encoded 
Chinese, a language I can not read, write, speak, or understand."
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I'm currently reading Schnabel's autobiographical "My Life And Music." 
On page 83 he refers to an editorial printed after one of his first
American concerts.  It was titled "Salesmanship" and said, "Now here's a
very good artist and musician, Mr. Schnabel.  Why is he not sensible? 
Why does he insist on playing this repertoire [hardcore items like
Beethoven's Op. 111 instead of crowd-pleasers and "light" classics]?  He
could make plenty of money if only he had a little flexibility and
elasticity.  He came here to sell his wares, and if he wants to sell his
wares he must also take into account the demands on the market."  This
was written in 1921.  Schnabel talks in his book about how plenty of
other pianists were "selling out" (though he doesn't quite use that
term, obviously) and how he as being urged by bookers and managers to do
the same.  So this is an old lament.  Even then he reports on audience
members falling asleep during the "dull" parts of the program--Beethoven
sonatas, for example--and only waking up for the bon-bons.
John
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should pay me that much.   - Tom Cruise

 sonatas, for example--and only waking up for the bon-bons.
I think Schnabel also said: "My recitals are boring in the first half,
and also in the second." FWIW, I used to adapt that quotation in
reference to my own lectures when I was a college professor... <g> Now,
of course, it's the university administrators that admonish professors
to offer in their classes the equivalent of "crowd-pleasers and 'light'
classics" -- it's called "teaching effectiveness"... <bg>
-- 
E.A.C.

 sonatas, for example--and only waking up for the bon-bons.
I was at a Beethoven piano recital (Op. 110, Op. 10 no. 1, Op. 79, etc.)
just this Sunday.  A woman seated behind me slept through most of it.  At
the intermission, one of her companions asked "how did you like it?"   "Oh,
wonderful, wonderful!" she replied.  "No one *emphasizes runs* like this
pianist does!"  Emphasizes runs?  I often wonder what percentage of the
audience consists of idiots.  Perhaps a huge percentage, and, perhaps
without their patronage we could not have concerts.  All the same, that
doesn't mean I wouldn't like to kill them.
John

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And these idiots are probably the ones who buy recordings by tut-tut-tut, 
and what's-his-name, and also you-know-who.
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i was at a show-off concert here in hono-boo-boo. it was given by an 
international level visitor with amazing technique -- guy playing the glenn 
gould song book -- but, you know, a show-off? he plumps up the 110 so that 
it sounds "interesting" all the time? completely craps-up Beethoven's 
phrasing -- the late sonatas secret written by hummel.
and the audience is full of local piano teachers, i guess. they're nodding 
out, or they're hanging on because they've got a student and parent with 
them.
they stand in line at the end of the concert for 40 minutes to get joe 
lizst's autograph, and humble joe is devouring the applause (though my 
daughter, who knows him, says he mostly devours gourmet food -- the 
adulation is maybe a kind of sauce for him?). 
a good performer of classical music can bring out the noblest of human 
sentiment. just ask carl haas.
mike
 

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Unless she snored, or drooled on the back of your neck, she would seem to be
better company than a bag rattler or a cellphone wielder.
bl

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She snored.  This was implicit in my post, since I said she was sitting
*behind* me.  Additionally, her companions rattled their programs non-stop,
especially in the slow movments.  My wife called them the "origami sisters".
;-)
J

 doesn't mean I wouldn't like to kill them.
I'm a bit more tolerant, maybe. Hell, I'd even sit next to orangie at a 
concert (provided he keeps quiet during the performance, which would seem 
to be a dubious proposition).
T.C.