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Re: Provocative Rorem Fugue Quote
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Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:40:57 -0500
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Ed Zubrow at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Rorem From The Paris Diary:
>
>"Is a fugue the pointless conversation of persons in too-perfect
>agreement? Or someone insane talking to himself?"

All composers who have written a string quartet are suffering from
dissociative response, it is, after all, a conversation for four distinct
personalities.

Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]>

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