realthog: (Default)
[personal profile] realthog

. . . one has a vague inkling why a composer isn't as well recognized as he should be.


Date: 2010-02-23 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com
Titz?

I'm listening to a collection of his string quartets, and they're damn' fine, but every time I tell my lady wife this she for some reason starts treating me with even less respect than usual.

Date: 2010-02-23 04:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] avengangle.livejournal.com
Heh heh. :)

Date: 2010-02-23 01:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

You probably know his work -- among the few! The name really is such a shame, because the stuff I've found of his is jolly nice.

I imagine in the nonanglophone countries of Europe he's better known than in the UK/US.

Date: 2010-02-23 11:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
For some reason he gets very little airplay.

Date: 2010-02-23 01:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

Yes, tricky for yer average classical DJ . . .

Date: 2010-02-23 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daisytells.livejournal.com
(giggle) -- It's too bad about the lack of recognition. What do we call it? "Name-ism"?

Date: 2010-02-23 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

Actually, I think it's very sad: simply because of his name, almost no one in the English-speaking world listens to his music, which is pretty good. I've been listening to some of his string quartets on free.napster, and plan to buy the CD next time I'm feeling flush.

Date: 2010-02-23 01:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bondo-ba.livejournal.com
Sounds like a great name for a punk band, though. I can imagine them looking innocently at the enraged questioners and saying "but he was a composer..."

Date: 2010-02-23 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com
Sounds like a great name for a punk band, though.

Funny you should say that:
http://free.napster.com/view/album/index.html?id=13106879

By the way, I'm planning to e-mail you shortly to pick your brains about something . . .

Date: 2010-02-23 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bondo-ba.livejournal.com
Feel free to contact me whenever you like!

Date: 2010-02-23 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

Feel free to contact me whenever you like!

Will do. It's for some advice in connection with the stuff I'm doing for the new edn of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

March 2013

S M T W T F S
     1 2
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728 2930
31      

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 14th, 2025 09:48 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios