Re: [Leica] Bela Bartok.

["Robert Bedwell" <rlb@triad.rr.com>]

Let's not leave out on of my other favorites John Corigliano....still alive
too!

Bob


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Chandos Michael Brown" <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Bela Bartok.


> Bartok, abstract?  Heavens, much of his work is derived from folk music,
> hardly abstract at all.  How about Schoenberg?  Harry Parch?  John
> Cage?   Or, to get really crazy, Cecil Taylor or Pharoah Sanders?
>
> And, just to interject enough pedantry to bring the note up to LUG
> standards, I was once lectured that the name is actually "Bartok Bela,"
> something to do with Hungarian naming conventions.  Anyone know anything
> about this?
>
> Chandos
>
> (who's listening to television in the background)
>
>
>
> At 02:13 PM 1/23/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Dear Bob,
> >
> >I like the Roumanian Folk Dance, BB76 for orchestra. Actually that is
> >what I am listening while I am typing this. A friend of mine who was
> >a former lead clarinetist of the Oregon Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
> >loaned me a tape. Bartok? Yes, count me in.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >PC
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I just got out of the darkroom and I am sitting here listening to
> > Bartok.  I
> > > wonder how many LUGGERS could accept music from such an abstract
composer?
> > >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Pitak Chenkosol, Dept. Electrical Eng.,|  " I was born not knowing and
have
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change
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> >E-mail: pitakc@ee.pdx.edu              |                Richard P.
Feynman
>
>
>
> Chandos Michael Brown
> Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
> College of William and Mary
>
> http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown
>