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Re: "Comforting" Music
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Ulvi Yurtsever <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:51:17 -0800
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Bob Stumpf:

>Some of the most relaxing music I know of are the Stokowski/Bach
>transcriptions;-)  Just now I am listening to the LSO recordings on RCA.
>Wonderful.

My problem with the Stokowski-Bach transcriptions is not that they are
un-HIP (a forgiveable offense), but that they are in bad taste, unlike,
eg (most) Busoni-Bach.

Ulvi
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