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Rick Mabry wrote:
>We have a winner! (Well, I'm calling it such, despite the hedging "could
>be".)
>Nice going, Jon Gallant! (Dave, tell him what he's won...)
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>[A great big virtual pat on the back. -Dave]
Thanks, Rick and Dave. I hedged because I did not actually listen to
the snippet, due to the limitations of my prehistoric dial-up connection
and antique wood-burning, text-only browser.
Yeah, Mme. Farrenc wrote a lot of beautiful although basically derivative
music. It is a fine thing that CDs have permitted us to discover all
these expert, unoriginal second-drawer composers. I recently rediscovered
another one. In my youth, I studied piano, and developed a horror of
the very name Czerny, the fiend who wrote those awful exercizes we all
had to play. Imagine my surprise to find that Carl Czerny wrote solid,
stirring well-thought-out symphonic music in essentially the language
of his mentor, one L. Beethoven.
Jon Gallant
Department of Gnome Sciences
University of Washington
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