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Skriven 2014-11-25 20:56:56 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 19780 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 ML> for clashes in tastes. Back in the old olden days you
 ML> got what came, period.
 RH> And nobody recorded it, either on paper or otherwise, so you heard it
 RH> once and it was gone.

 ML> Sometimes people tried. This is well past the prenotation
 ML> era, but there's the story about Mozart hearing the Allegri
 ML> Miserere once and then writing it down (the Allegri was
 ML> supposed to be the private property of the Pope and not
 ML> published) from memory. Later scholars have poked holes in
 ML> this story, citing evidence that Mozart made a hash of
 ML> things, and his pushy, stage-managing father did a lot of
 ML> correcting before announcing the feat to the world.

Believable or take it with a grain (or 2, or half a shaker) of salt?

 ML> And a lot of the time music was taught and learned by
 ML> repetition, so there was at least some transmission of
 ML> music, slow and spotty though it was.

IOW, you had to have a very good memory to know what to play over and
over again, once you started with a new piece.


 ML> =

 RH> You were glad it was an only once a year piece? And, that you didn't
 RH> have to practice with the cannons and fireworks? (G)

 ML> Luckily cannon and fireworks are expensive. And I was glad
 ML> once I didn't have to play it at all. Interestingly, the
 ML> piece has nothing to do with American history - it was

The French Revolution, IIRC.

 ML> Arthur Fiedler who figured it would be a slambang way to
 ML> celebrate the 4th of July. That old guy had a lot to
 ML> answer for.

He pretty much made the 2 synonymous.

 ML> stewed in soy sauce, veal marsala, and durian (all of which
 ML> I found more palatable than McRib.
 RH> I've not had crickets, have had veal marsala and durian. Of the 2 I've
 RH> had, I'd rather have the veal than the durian. Don't know how I'd rate
 RH> the crickets, probably under the "don't let me know what I'm eating
 RH> while (or before) I'm eating it" category. (G)

 ML> I like the veal and durian both but would enjoy the veal
 ML> more frequently. I was thinking of the alcoholic issue
 ML> with the marsala. Crickets would be hard to disguise
 ML> unless they were ground into meal - the ones I had were
 ML> quite obvious.

The alcohol isn't that obvious in the marsalas I've had. I think the
taste of durian would linger, maybe a bit too long, and crickets, see
above. (G)


 ML> I've been known to commandeer a car full of giggling
 ML> half-in-the-bag friends and hijack it to Leonard's
 ML> halfway across some island or other. Sometimes the
 ML> zeppole at St. Anthony's festival in the North End
 ML> came close.
 RH> But, when you're in LVNV, you've got to take what you can get, since
 RH> they don't have Leonard's there. It was actually pretty good.

 ML> Though I say it who shouldn't, sweetened fried dough is
 ML> generally a pretty good thing.

Agreed. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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