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Mark Shanks wrote:
>WHAT is this "Music for the Millenium"? I haven't seen any discs labelled
>as such - are they in the "soundtrack" section, or "world music" (another
>horrible term....) section, or maybe they just haven't made their way to
>the junior-varsity cities?
I was just in a local Borders the other day and saw some on their kiosk
devoted to CDs and books mentioned on NPR. I just looked at them briefly,
but they seemed to be reissues of standard CM disks (presumably Sony ones),
repackaged with a uniform, somewhat classy-understated cover design. They
appear to be grouped by era--I saw one of medieval stuff, another
Renaissance, and an LvB 9th (by Szell, I think).
In other words, nothing that would particularly interest members of this
list. But they might intrigue some CM new-comers, and they are certainly
preferable to the "Mozart Brain Food" kind of thing. So perhaps not all
of Mr. Gelb's ideas for expanding the CM audience are terrible.
Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]
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