Comments on: Getting the paper again http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:59:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Brad Wood http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/comment-page-1/#comment-45730 Brad Wood Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:19:31 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/#comment-45730 Flowering and deflowering---reminds me of the late Mark Lapidus' paper, Two Women, a fairly deranged and highly imaginative work, which purported to be a comparison between Poème Électronique and Gesang der Jünglinge. IIRC Lapidus refers to the "composition and decomposition of timbres". Flowering and deflowering—reminds me of the late Mark Lapidus’ paper, Two Women, a fairly deranged and highly imaginative work, which purported to be a comparison between Poème Électronique and Gesang der Jünglinge.

IIRC Lapidus refers to the “composition and decomposition of timbres”.

]]> By: PK http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/comment-page-1/#comment-45713 PK Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:33:00 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/#comment-45713 Newspapers have tooooo much advertising (which I avoid, knowing that it works), and toooo much corporate digesting. When I moved to LA in the seventies (almost thirty years to the month), the <i>Times</i> was still using the term "Ruskies". News sources require a lot of triangulating these days although the internet access to so many sources makes it easier then in the past. It is a shame that Pacifica considers their presenters "authenticity" more important then their radio skills, making it all but un-listenable. On one hand, I am jealous that you still have your father around to criticize (mine has been gone for decades, and I miss him greatly), on the other hand..... :-) I would like to think that by our age, I would have been able to see the love in the criticism. It took me twenty years to figure out that my father's statement, "You're no Mozart!", was right! I barely hide behind the thinnest veil on the internet, mostly because when I started blogging a few years ago, I had a strong sense that the WWW was a world wide exposure to scoundrels. My blog was primarily personal and political, but I have decided that my words on politics mean nothing, and that I would only express my political ideas through my actions, as best I could. So now I am mostly blogging on film music. I insist on my blog being an informal, non-academic forum. That my interests are the same as what I am ending up teaching is not surprising. The blog also started as an exercise in writing. As a BMus and MA, I have not taken an English composition class since high school (I know, it's apperent ;-)), so I need to exercise the discipline, most particularly as I am staring straight ahead at my dissertation! (urk!). Have a good year, your whole-human, approach to musicality makes me so happy for your students. I predict some great musical flowering at Schoenberg, and considering it is a college campus, probably some deflowering as well... (ducking and running). Newspapers have tooooo much advertising (which I avoid, knowing that it works), and toooo much corporate digesting. When I moved to LA in the seventies (almost thirty years to the month), the Times was still using the term “Ruskies”. News sources require a lot of triangulating these days although the internet access to so many sources makes it easier then in the past. It is a shame that Pacifica considers their presenters “authenticity” more important then their radio skills, making it all but un-listenable.

On one hand, I am jealous that you still have your father around to criticize (mine has been gone for decades, and I miss him greatly), on the other hand….. :-) I would like to think that by our age, I would have been able to see the love in the criticism. It took me twenty years to figure out that my father’s statement, “You’re no Mozart!”, was right!

I barely hide behind the thinnest veil on the internet, mostly because when I started blogging a few years ago, I had a strong sense that the WWW was a world wide exposure to scoundrels. My blog was primarily personal and political, but I have decided that my words on politics mean nothing, and that I would only express my political ideas through my actions, as best I could. So now I am mostly blogging on film music. I insist on my blog being an informal, non-academic forum. That my interests are the same as what I am ending up teaching is not surprising. The blog also started as an exercise in writing. As a BMus and MA, I have not taken an English composition class since high school (I know, it’s apperent ;-) ), so I need to exercise the discipline, most particularly as I am staring straight ahead at my dissertation! (urk!).

Have a good year, your whole-human, approach to musicality makes me so happy for your students. I predict some great musical flowering at Schoenberg, and considering it is a college campus, probably some deflowering as well… (ducking and running).

]]> By: Roger Bourland http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/comment-page-1/#comment-45708 Roger Bourland Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:31:20 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/#comment-45708 Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin! Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!

]]> By: ComposerBastard http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/comment-page-1/#comment-45702 ComposerBastard Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:48:17 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/09/18/getting-the-paper-again/#comment-45702 "I fantasize that when I no longer teach, I will have an enormous amount of things to share with my readers that now are completely inappropriate to my job as a teacher and my position as Chair. Nonetheless, I still have a hell of a lot to say and will continue to say it here." Oh tease us, Devil. Tell us more! “I fantasize that when I no longer teach, I will have an enormous amount of things to share with my readers that now are completely inappropriate to my job as a teacher and my position as Chair. Nonetheless, I still have a hell of a lot to say and will continue to say it here.”

Oh tease us, Devil. Tell us more!

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