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Skriven 2014-10-16 14:18:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: music 101
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-12-14  08:20 <=-

 ML>> Back then, that was where the security was, though the
 ML>> pay at court was better.
 NB>> If courts paid musicians today, it probably would be about the same
 NB>> now...  ;)
 ML> Nowadays courts don't pay musicians, musicians pay court.

Sad, but true...
 
 NB>>> because the scores were literally recycled... as waste paper...  ;0
 ML>> Sometimes the music itself was recycled.
 NB>> True... and he did a fair share of that himself... both of his own
 NB>> music and that of others, as we've mentioned already... :)
 ML> It was considered acceptable practice back then, just
 ML> so the reuser added something original and credited the
 ML> source. Not so different from latter days, I suppose.

One can always reuse one's own music... although it's generally better
accepted if there is something new done to it...  ;)   And, true,
variations on themes from someone else is still very acceptable.  As to
crediting the source, that would include things like Mozartiana, etc.. 

 ML>> It is said that Brahms was once invited back to a lodging he
 ML>> had occupied as a student, and once there he became agitated
 ML>> and started clawing at the wallpaper. Apparently, there had
 ML>> been a draft, and he had used a discarded manuscript to stop
 ML>> it up. In his mature years he could not rest until he had
 ML>> destroyed it once and for all.
 NB>> I wonder what the company there thought...  ;)
 ML> I forget, having read about it between 20 and 50 years
 ML> ago in a book of anecdotes, perhaps the Slonimsky one,
 ML> which is relatively easy to find, but I haven't found
 ML> it lately.
 
Funny, what sticks in the mind forever... ;)  And how hard things can be
to track down later... at least without substantial effort, sometimes
not so easily come by...  :)

 ML>> That sounds like the prize concert rather than the competition
 ML>> concert. Unlikely he would have been given both concerti during
 ML>> the competition phase; also that Khrushchev would have attended
 ML>> any but the culminating event.
 NB>> You are probably right about that... He might have played each
 NB>> separately at different stages of the competition, I suppose...
 ML> Undoubtedly. And certainly the big busy guy would not
 ML> have attended multiple preliminaries.

Unless he was particularly a classical music fan... but the prize
concert would have been an important one to go to... :)

 ML>> Yeah, I was invited to attend that (as a spectator, of
 ML>> course) once. Amazingly, I forgot about it.
 NB>> Forgot to attend, or just forgot that it existed...?  I can imagine
 NB>> not remembering even some pretty fantastic things, until the mind gets
 NB>> somewhat jostled... happens to me, too...  probably something to do
 NB>> with there being lots in there to remember, and it's hard to do it all
 NB>> simultaneously...  ;) 
 ML> Forgot to attend - but I also hadn't remembered to get
 ML> tickets and stuff, so there was no financial loss from
 ML> that quarter, thank goodness.

Well, that could have been a lot worse, then...  ;)

ttyl         neb

... Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

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