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#33214 07/01/2001 8:53 PM
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That's what we call 'Jazz'

All I'm going to say is that Britney Spears is quite popular. You judge for yourself.


#33215 07/01/2001 9:46 PM
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Bill McLaughlin*, host of the NPR radio program Saint Paul Sunday, also discussed the use of "classical music." He allowed as how he couldn't really come up with a better term, and that the canon hi mav! is established mainly by those-who-determine-what-their-orchestras/choruses-will-play/sing-each-year worldwide.

So I guess we gotta include John Cage.

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*Faldage, pls correct me if I misspelled the feller's name.


#33216 07/01/2001 10:21 PM
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So I guess we gotta include John Cage.
And the Beatles. I've a CD of Beatles songs done by the London Philharmonic.


#33217 07/02/2001 12:24 PM
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Bill McLaughlin*

*Faldage, pls correct me if I misspelled the feller's name.

Well, it looked good to me but he seems to have a nextra G in it. It's McGlaughlin.


#33218 07/02/2001 12:56 PM
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Britney Spears is quite popular.

Have any of y'all heard that Britney Spears is Burning Spear's half sister?


#33219 07/02/2001 1:04 PM
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Bill McLaughlin*

*Faldage, pls correct me if I misspelled the feller's name.

Well, it looked good to me but he seems to have a nextra G in it. It's McGlaughlin.


Could it be the name has a trace of the Irish spelling!



#33220 07/02/2001 1:12 PM
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a trace of the Irish spelling

These names suffer great indignities when manhandled by the Sassenach. See Maguire, McGwire, McWire, McGuire, etc.


#33221 07/02/2001 1:49 PM
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" Maguire, McGwire, McWire, McGuire, etc."
Those spellings were self-inflicted. Of the many Sassenach crimes, this was not one.


#33222 07/02/2001 9:02 PM
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I think that might just be it!!! HAHAHAH... THE INSANITY!!!

---This is a response to WOW... heh... sorry for the confusion


#33223 07/03/2001 9:46 PM
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What a fascinating introduction to this Message Board this thread has been! I have nothing to offer on the topic under discussion, except this:
The National Arts Center of Canada has made available for download in MP3 format Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C Major. I don't know whether it's Classical, Romantic, or just old, but it sounds nice. The link is
http://www.nac-cna.ca/en/multimedia/audio/index.html How are URLs made active here?


#33224 07/03/2001 11:21 PM
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http://www.nac-cna.ca/en/multimedia/audio/index.html How are URLs made active here?

the http:// has to be removed, or it is reduplicated http:// before and ending
http://www.nac-cna.ca/en/multimedia/audio/index.html


#33225 07/05/2001 8:01 PM
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I have to agree, rather grudgingly, with mav. In a conversational context, "classical" music is a useful generalisation - as, indeed, is "popular" music. The latter includes a whole corpus of work that is only "popular" with relatively small groups of people. I have heard punk referred to as "popular" music in the same sort of context as Chopin is referred to as "classical." Both terms are, strictly speaking, incorrect, but within a general context, it does serve a purpose.

It doesn't stop it from getting on my ears, though! Come on, musick, lets go into the corner and talk Early Baroque!


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It doesn't stop it from geting on my ears, though!

Yes, I know what you mean Rhu - but like the old mantra has it, if it ain't baroque, don't fidget


#33227 07/06/2001 12:04 PM
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You never cease to amaze me with the depths to which you are prepared to plummet, mav.

I thought I had better get that in before anyone else protests - as you know, it is the Early Byrd who Ave Verum for breakfast.





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Dear Mav & Rhuby: You guys are good, but I still miss TEd.


#33229 07/06/2001 12:42 PM
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Amen to that, Bill - I still bow to that Master.
Many a good tale he has told, many a good yarn he hass Pun




#33230 07/06/2001 8:13 PM
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Baroque is what you are when you have no Monet.


#33231 07/07/2001 7:48 PM
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Baroque is what you are when you have no MonetWell you can always go into the Woods to do a little Chopin, unless a Constable comes along, when you will be well advised to rest awhile and listen to the Birt-whistle in the tree.
If you keep some 'Ives, you night eventually sell the honey (or you could Munch it yourself!)



#33232 07/09/2001 4:47 PM
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Or Szell it.


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