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Skriven 2014-09-29 06:10:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> Patrons can be exigent, too, plus most creative people are
 ML> driven by something in addition to money.
 NB> In this case it was that the patron's wife was of a different
 NB> religion, and religious music wasn't being required of Bach...

Turns out the patron's wife wasn't particularly musical
and (apparently) saw music as a competitor for her
husband's affections.

 NB>> that was when he wrote most of his secular pieces, in fact...
 ML> I bet he sneaked a cantata or three in, maybe the sketches
 ML> of a Magnificat, to be filled in and polished up when church
 ML> time came around again.
 NB> Oh, I dunno... might have had ideas about a Magnificat, I suppose...
 NB> he did write secular cantatas, like the Coffee Cantata...  so probably
 NB> didn't feel the need to do up any for future church services...  :)

And of course there's the possibility that we don't have
the total of the music he wrote (he could have written
secular music on church time or liturgical music when
he was working at Cothen. Or maybe the identification of
the date of existing pieces might not be correspondent
with the date of conception or finishment.

 NB> Faint bell, but maybe it's because we've had something like this
 ML> Nobelist in literature, minor writer best known as I
 ML> recall for children's books. There were better and more
 ML> important authors going begging.
 NB> Ah... might have even seen some of her children's books at some time
 NB> or other... but I have a hard enough time remembering the Nobel winners
 NB> of any sort from year to year...   :)

I doubt it - they were really minor works.

 ML> was Dutch as well. It was a terrible thing to give first
 ML> prize to an American - it's said that the committee had to
 ML> call Khrushchev to get permission to do so.
 NB> It was pretty hard not to give him the prize after he played so
 NB> well... he might as well have been channeling Peter Illyich...

It was so much better than the famous Richter version that
I could hardly believe it.

 ML> The guy had a good career after but sank into obscurity after
 ML> a while, some say because his father (a hard taskmaster as
 ML> well as his agent) died and left no mechanism for the business
 ML> to continue, some say because of discrimination against gays.
 NB> He sponsors his own competition now... in Texas, IIRC...  My mom
 NB> always likes to listen to those competitions... being a pianist...

I was unaware he was even alive - he's kept a low profile for
decades.

DASHI BROTH
Categories: Asian fusion, celebrity, ingredient
Yield: about 5 c

1 lg piece kombu (24-30 sq in)
2 sl (1/4") fresh peeled ginger cut lengthwise
- from a 2- to 3"-long piece
2 c dried bonito flakes

Clean the kombu by wiping it with a damp cloth. Place
the kombu and ginger in a stockpot with 5 c of cold
water and heat over medium heat. Just before the water
boils, remove the pot from the heat. Watch carefully;
you don't want the water to boil or the dashi will
become too strongly flavored.

Allow the mixture to stand for 5 min, remove the kombu,
and return the pot to medium heat. When the broth once
again nears the boiling point, remove the pot from the
heat and add the bonito flakes. When the flakes sink to
the bottom of the pot, strain through cheesecloth or a
fine-mesh strainer. Use or cool and store.

Lasts two weeks refrigerated or one month frozen.

source: Ming Tsai


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