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Skriven 2014-11-09 20:37:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: music 223
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-07-14  06:54 <=-

 ML> Funny that when I was in the music biz, there were three
 ML> classical guys named John Adams, none of them any relation
 ML> that one could discern. I worked with one of them, whose
 ML> name, it is said, was originally Adamovich or something.

Rather common names... not unlike the unrelated John Williams-es.  I
just heard something by a John Luther Adams on a radio symphony
broadcast...  somewhat minimalist, like other John Adams-es...

 ML>> donate or solicit large sums. More eminent artists (i.e., not
 ML>> me) sometimes appear on such lists, largely by virtue of their
 ML>> name power, which is supposed to be a money draw.
 NB>> And some of them would indeed have the ability to donate large sums,
 NB>> at least potentially... if it wasn't all being put into bows and
 NB>> instruments...  ;)
 ML> Classical musicians don't make much money, unless they're
 ML> named after a children's toy.

And have achieved a bit of fame and all...
 
 ML>>> Other news - Nicholas was there, looking rather under the
 ML>>> weather. He went in for a kidney transplant a month ago, but
 ML>>> they found a complication that prevented that, and he just
 ML>>> got out after 3 1/2 weeks of treatments and no transplant. Ugh.
 NB>>> Sad, that...  Doesn't sound good at all...  but maybe he can beat
 NB>>> some of the odds, anyway...
 ML>> I'm not sure what's up with him. I should give him a
 ML>> shout.
 NB>> Probably a good idea.  :)
 ML> He's way up on the north shore where there's no public
 ML> trans, and I've always relied on him and his assortment of
 ML> fast cars to get me when we had to meet. Now that he's
 ML> kind of immobile, it's much harder.

That would put a bit of a spanner into things, wouldn't it... one would
have to find a mutual friend with some sort of reliable transportation
to make connections...  

 ML>> Still enjoying life, which is the point of the whole thing,
 ML>> and being the center of attention, which I never could
 ML>> sympathize with.
 NB>> That latter is more important for some than for others... ;)
 ML> Gunther has this talent for letting people know he's around
 ML> without being really obnoxious about it, and he tends to

Not being really obnoxious is a very good thing... ;)

 ML> cow people because he's smarter and (equally importantly)
 ML> more confident than everyone else. One reason we hit it
 ML> off is that if there's something that's red, and he says
 ML> it's blue, I won't believe him. But his attitude in
 ML> general has gotten him pretty far in life.

I had a friend in college that was somewhat similar... At one point, he
made a statement (that could have been plausibly true) and I made an
off-hand Oh? or some such... which he took as my having seen through the
subterfuge, and admitted that it was actually not true... but from then
after, he expected that I'd see through things and made a point of being
particularly truthful with me...  :)   I found it amusing then, and, to
tell the truth, still do...  :)  Lost touch since college, but we
remained pretty good friends straight through...  :)

ttyl          neb

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