(urth) grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle

[hammstu at sbcglobal.net]

Ha...! Not THOSE kind of mushrooms... Who was it who said that Richard Wagners' music is "Better than it sounds" ?
If you all want to stretch your ears try to find a copy of "New Sound Forms for Piano"..J Cage, conlan Nancarow's pieces for player piano and Ben Johnsons' pieces for micro-tonal piano...just make sure that there are no young, impressionable children in the room.
...Then listen to anything by Arvo Part to calm down.....
So...how DID Quetzal get aboard the Whorl????
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-----Original Message-----
From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
Sender: urth-bounces at lists.urth.netDate: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:23:16 
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Mr. Hamm, honestly, when I wrote that analogy, I KNEW it would pull you 
from the woodwork. And, yet, it fit.
I listen to much of his stuff and say, "He seems to know what he's 
doing. I just don't want to hear him do it."

Wow, mushroom hunting. What a stereotypical activity to do with John 
Cage! It's like saying "I fought bulls with Hemmingway" or "I entered a 
frog jumping competition with Mark Twain."

;-D

On 2/7/2011 5:03 PM, hammstu at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> I knew John Cage....used to go Mushroom hunting with he and merce cunningham....the prepared piano pieces?? Hauntingly beautiful when played by someone who knows what they are doing...imho
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: James Wynn<crushtv at gmail.com>
> >Sender: urth-bounces at lists.urth.netDate: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:31:10
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> >Subject: Re: (urth) grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle
> >I'll accept your opinion of her novels. I really only know her from her
> >short stories..genre and literary. I recognize her technical ability,
> >but I consistently have walked away from her stories feeling unbuzzed.
> >It's like listening to a John Cage symphony.  "Fossil-Figures" was just
> >the final straw.
> >
> >u+16b9

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