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Stupid question thread.

Nah. I'd rather have the material in it's original context.

Welcome! It's a classy joint, this Organissimo forum is....it sure tiz.

Uh huh. The latest chapter. Check it out - Osama Lutfi.

I'm in. Where and when?

I don't have any particular problem with it. What do you not like about it? No snappy reply, eh?

let's see if that works...

Didn't happen.

We just passed 710,000!

They could have had Sun Ra on.

poor kid. It was the 1980s. Uh oh...

poor kid.

It was the 1980s.

I'm really sorry to hear about your wife, Lon. dB

I hope she does better Randy.

it keeps flippin' back and forth. real time and one hour ahead.

February 4, 2008Music Review | Composer Portrait: George Crumb All the Percussion That's Fit to Pound By STEVE SMITH, NYTimes The ensemble So Percussion is gradually making its way through the ranks of composers most revered by percussionists. The group has devoted multiple concerts to the music of Steve Reich; it has also paid due attention to John Cage, seen by many as the father of modern percussion music. On Friday night at Miller Theater, in a Composer Portrait concert, So Percussion played works by George Crumb, completing a sort of holy trinity of percussion composers that Jason Treuting, a member of the ensemble, cited during an onstage conversation with Mr. Crumb. Mr. Treuting was clearly awestruck, tendering his questions with a fan's nervousness. But Mr. Crumb, asked if he had been influenced by the percussion music of Cage and Mr. Reich, instead named Bartok, Debussy and Mahler. Hearing Mahler in the three pieces So Percussion presented was something of a stretch, but connections to the other two were clear. "An Idyll for the Misbegotten" (1986) conjures the lonely solo flute of Debussy's "Syrinx" and plants it among three rumbling drummers. On a stage illuminated only by the dim blue light of lamps on music stands, the superb flutist Erin Lesser played lines that fluttered, dipped and soared over a bass drum that rolled like distant thunder. When two other percussionists added call-and-response figures from either side of the stage, it was as if storm clouds had suddenly burst open wide. "Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)," composed in 1974, uses the instrumentation of Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. The pianists Stephen Buck and Cory Smythe manipulated the strings inside their instruments as frequently as they played on the keyboards, while two percussionists negotiated dozens of noise-making implements, including slide whistles and rocks. During the second section, "Wanderer-Fantasy," all four players concentrated their efforts on the pianos; in the fourth, "Myth," all were effectively percussionists. Each movement is filled with beguiling sounds; in terms of original timbres there may be no more innovative composer than Mr. Crumb. Still, there is more to this work than special effects: it has a satisfying dramatic arc, opening with elemental mystery and culminating in a fantasia based on a Bach fugue. Between those two pieces was "Unto the Hills," a set of folk-song arrangements Mr. Crumb created in 2001. Daisy Press, a soprano, sang with a winning subtlety and understatement, accompanied by rustling shakers, a wind machine and a piano strummed like an autoharp. Like Messiaen with his bird calls, Mr. Crumb does not merely evoke Appalachia but also seems intent on recreating almost literally each chirping cricket and creaking windowpane.

still screwed up.

Appreciate the message, Rache, really do. I just feel the football gods were on our side all year. It was bound to turn. Being undefeated is an undesired curse. I just hope this loss shakes out all the transitory fans. I'm in it for the long haul, just as you are with your team, Rachel. At least you didn't suddenly explode into flames Conn.

How old are you Dan?

Andy Warhol's Empire is about all the action I can take these days.

Ah ha! Now it's suddenly OK...maybe I'm just having a flashback...

What's with the time on this board? It keeps gaining and loosing and hour. I started to post about it yesterday and then it looked ok. Now it looks like the time is an hour ahead again...

Yeah......as I said, it's kind of a mess, structurally. That's why I'm thinking of getting something new. How much are those G&Ls? Less than $500 and I wouldn't sneeze at getting something like this used. edit: I'm finding $489 on the net. Looks like the price went up a little bit. Still....nice guitars.