Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Looking for classical-sounding modern composers Message-ID: <229@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 10:06:39 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.229 Posted: Wed Oct 31 10:06:39 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 05:10:46 EST References: <416@hlwpc.UUCP> <13129@mgweed.UUCP> <227@zinfandel.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 21 > In article <13129@mgweed.UUCP> lwc@mgweed.UUCP (Larry Ciesla) writes: > > NEARLY EVERYTHING WRITTEN > >AS CLASSICAL MUSIC IN THE LAST 50 YEARS IS GARBAGE!!! > > EVERYTHING? EVERYTHING? Even Vaughn Williams, Benjamin Britten and > Howard Hanson? Them's fighten words! (But then I *LIKE* Messiaen...) > [BARRY KERCHEVAL] Obviously this has gone far enough. I speak for many people (one, actually) when I say that we (I) are (am) sick of having to weed through all these discussions about 20th century music, which is of course all garbage. Thus we (I) propose a new subgroup, called net.music.classical.real, which will leave those who clutter this newsgroup with talk of 20th century so-called music, and allow the rest of us who wish only to discuss real music the privacy of our own newsgroup. [THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE WAS SATIRE, AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS OPINION, FACT, OR ANYTHING IN BETWEEN.] -- "Good thing I didn't say anything about the dirty *knife*!" Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr