In article , Tom Watson wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:44:40 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:


Naaaahhh. With rare exceptions, Rachmaninoff and Barber among them, music
written much beyond the end of the nineteenth century is mostly crap.


Did you know that Sam was born in my hometown of West Chester, Pa.

I went to school with his nieces and nephews.

Cool!

I like the Adagio as much as anyone but there are some interesting
minor works that get overlooked. He lived in a house about a block
from Claude Rains, who didn't come from WC but everybody liked having
him around anyway.

Since you are such a perfectionist you must love brother Bach.

Which one? :-)

Last spring, I read a book on Christian apologetics that contained a chapter
entitled "Twenty arguments for the existence of God." As I'm sure you suspect
from some of the things I've written in the past, I'm quite sympathetic with
the author's viewpoint, but to be quite honest I found most of his arguments
unconvincing at best, and many of them contained elementary logical fallacies
which rendered them utterly invalid. The one which seemed to me to have the
most merit was Number 17, reproduced here in its entirety: "There is the music
of Johann Sebastian Bach. You either see this or you don't."

Yes, I'm very fond of the music of J.S. Bach, and that of another composer who
wrote similarly complex music but is much less widely known: Henry Purcell.

However... in my mind, nothing surpasses the nine symphonies of Ludwig van
Beethoven.


I have this perfectly awesome Bach recording that I listen to almost
every day that is by Christopher Hogwood doing the Goldberg
Variations.

I'm familiar with the piece, of course, but not with that particular recording
of it, I don't believe.

If you don't have it, I want to send it to you.

I think you know where I live. :-)

I want to send it to everyone.


The seventh cut is a killer.

I'll see if I can lay my hands on a copy. Thanks.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.