ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis) (02/23/84)
Net.music has come a long way in the past year -- back then, I scarcely remember any articles at all about classical music, or hardcore, or anything else besides the most popular varieties of rock and easy-listening. This group has blossomed to become a source far more worthwhile than Rolling Stone, Stereo Review, BillBoard, and similar elitist, complacent, formula rags. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I believe net.music's growing interest in all manner of unusual music is bringing the more adventurous listeners out of the woodwork. I fear a breakup of this group into the proposed net.classical and net.rock will cause a reversion to the kind of moronic stifling of ideas that one sees in most conventional music (net.music.rosen on the other hand, would be a bizarre place, indeed!) The most interesting music being made today is by nonconformists who refuse to be classified by their listening public or by the recording industry! Should we, who comprise the VANGUARD OF NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGY, align ourselves with neanderthal ways of thought? Appropriately enough, we share much in common with the growing number of do-it-yourself recording artists out there. By using new technology, any contributor to this newsgroup has the potential to spread new ideas far beyond the range of most other ordinary people. What most of us lack is vision. There remains a lot more music out there that has not been mentioned in any article to date. Has anyone checked out Latvian church music? I cannot recall one article on Cajun music. Has anyone heard the mainland Chinese punk band `Dragon'? I could go on... The people who are making these noises are not the overpaid fat egomaniacs whom we sometimes flatter with such words such as `musician' and `artist'. It's easier to part with those hard-earned $$$ when you know it's going to a good cause. -michael "I'd rather die for a noble cause Than live and die as a slave" - Mark Stewart
dya@unc-c.UUCP (02/23/84)
References: flairvax.338
WILL SOMEONE POINT ME TO THIS ALLEGEDLY DECENT AND NEW MUSIC !!!!!!
dyanorskog@fortune.UUCP (Lance Norskog) (02/23/84)
Hear, hear!
Does anyone know a good source of Hawaiian steel guitar music,
Calypso, or a good-quality pressing of the Missa Luba?
(The latter is the High Mass as sung in the Congo. Great stuff,
which is high praise coming from a rabid atheist like me.)
Lance C. Norskog
Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA
{cbosgd,hpda,harpo,sri-unix,amd70,decvax!ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!norskogrrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) (02/24/84)
"Viennese period" seems an improvement over "classical period" (but do we really want to end all reference to the classicism/romanticism distinction? It works alright in art history, though there "neo- classical" is used, but not so well in literary history). But "Viennese" doesn't zero in enough: it could mean the heyday of the Vienna School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern) which some may claim still con- tinues (Arthur Berger, etc.). More confusingly, it could refer to the period of major middle & late romantic symphonists (Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler). More facetiously, it could point to the vast output of Viennese waltz composers (all those Strausses, Emil Waldteufel, etc.).