The perfect 12 tone TV commercial for this group!

fol...@yahoo.com

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Jan 6, 2010, 7:38:47 PM1/6/10

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You'll love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACCAF04wSs

Mark

ecj

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Jan 6, 2010, 7:45:10 PM1/6/10

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Hilarious!

Brad Anders

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Jan 6, 2010, 8:55:12 PM1/6/10

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Made my YT favorites list! Right next to "Song X".

Brad Anders

edspyhill01

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Jan 7, 2010, 8:07:10 AM1/7/10

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Hey Tommy, they all can be played pimi. ;-)

Tommy Grand

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Jan 7, 2010, 8:16:25 AM1/7/10

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And it won't even matter if it's ragged! In college I tried to
challenge a percussionist by giving him the score to a Boulez piano
sonata and asking him to count out some of the rhythms. I can't
remember which sonata it was. My friend quickly pointed out a
footnote from the composer which explained that nobody was expected to
be able to play these rhythms exactly as notated. LOL! Kinda makes
you wonder what's the point.

edspyhill01

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Jan 7, 2010, 8:32:18 AM1/7/10

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Sounds like he was saying, close enough for rock'n'roll. Something to
do with the collective unconscious and the 100th monkey theory.

I just got a boxed collection of shostokovich string quartets. I'm
going to see what I can learn about that genre/style. Let's see how
long before I try to sell it used on Amazon.

fol...@yahoo.com

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Jan 7, 2010, 10:20:44 AM1/7/10

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Tommy,
Is it Boulez for sure? I don't have the scores handy.
I am wondering because Stockhausen said a similar thing.
One of the mistakes of integral serialism was to make a row of tempi
and then write it out all in one tempo resulting in enormously
complicated rhythms.

Personally, I doubt Boulez said this but I believe Stockhausen did
concerning his Klavierstuck.
A few of them are quite good and some are quite important,
historically speaking.
Remember, Stochausen had (and has) a big influence on pop music,
especially Yoko Ono!! but also on Brian Eno, Zappa, Beatles, and any
techno group.

Here is a nice Stockhausen lecture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPVc2Jvd0w

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Jan 7, 2010, 11:00:08 AM1/7/10

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On Jan 6, 7:38 pm, "foli...@yahoo.com" <foli...@yahoo.com> wrote:

This is great and I love the part where he says something like "you'll
thrill to the virtuoso violin writing in the Alban Berg Violin
Concerto" and then the clip they play is all the open strings!

S

Fugue

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Jan 7, 2010, 6:53:37 PM1/7/10

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This is so screamingly funny! Is the announcer Robert Conrad, the
Clevelend Symphony's radio announcer?

Tommy Grand

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Jan 7, 2010, 7:31:00 PM1/7/10

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On Jan 7, 9:20 am, "foli...@yahoo.com" <foli...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Tommy,
> Is it Boulez for sure? I don't have the scores handy.
> I am wondering because Stockhausen said a similar thing.

Not Boulez for sure. Hell it was a long time ago, maybe it was even
Xenakis. I'm pretty sure it was a piano score and there was a long
slurred figuration somewhere in the first few measures, in a very
complex rhythm. There was a footnote that said something like "don't
worry too much about playing these rhythms exactly".