Re: [b] -- da bestest

[Dave Snodgrass <dsv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Explain the mechanics of this one, to an atheist.

It depends on how you don't believe. If you reach into the great cosmic
unknown with and openness to receive anything that comes your way you could
in theroy tap into a gluon flux.

You could also do a handful of mushrooms and wait to see god.

There are many ways to express a soul.

> You're aiming your tirade at the wrong person.

Even thought the words are pointed, believe it or not, they weren't pointed
directly at you. It's a long standing frustration of mine.

> You slag musicians because they play a dead men's music, and
> yet you're perfectly happy to listen to them doing it i.e. you don't
> even have the commitment, passion or ability to play the stuff
> yourself.

This is wrong, I have the commitment, I have done it, now I choose to write
and play. The dead man music is only factual. That is all most of these
people ever play. It is a close minded group.

Your rant also demonstrated, thanks to the comment about

> musicians being tape recorders, that you listen to too few
> renditions of your supposedly beloved music, or at least you listen
> to poor ones.  Good conductors have their own takes on how the
> music should sound, and the musicians tend to have an input into
> how it should sound - particularly soloists, when it comes to
> cadenzas, etc. because a good musician will improvise.

Most classical musicians believe their import is greater than the music
itself, the composer and the conductor(usually in that order). A composer is
almost never that vain, including Mozart. "The way I perform is more
important than..." This is based on experience not conjecture.

I have too much; too many renditions. Tapes upon tapes on CD's on vinyl.

> Mozart - the choice of Otis, Schindler and a dozen other leading lift
> manufacturers.  Oh, and Wonderwall is one of the most dispicable
> pieces of shit I've ever had the misfortune to switch off.

At least we agree on that.

David



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