Bob Kasenchak wrote:

>I fear I'm giving the wrong impression of myself.  Even greater is my fear
>of the wrath of the Baroque-o-philes.

>From me, you have nothing to fear, I believe in 'Chaconne a son gout....'
However, I've been told that Bill(y) Kitson and the Outback Baroque Rapid
Response Team is this very moment flying out of Sydney....

>Last thought: To me baroque music, while very cool indeed, is much like
>early early 50's rock and proto-rock.  Every early Elvis (or whomsoever)
>song has (basically) similar chords, similar ideas, similar words/themes.
>They led to better things, and are most interesting 'cause you can see how
>important they were later.  And the lastingly interesting artists make
>little (or big) advances that get the art gradually to the 'next stage' so
>to speak.

This sounds like an example of the linear school of musical advancement,
meaning that Handel can't hold a candle to Beethoven, and Ludwig hasn't a
chance against von Suppe? And therefore Kabalevsky is superior to them all?

>--P.S.  I am absolutely not saying anything remotely derogatory about
>JSB at all ever.  His is a whole 'nother case.

Ah, he wasn't Baroque, of course (though he IS timeless).

>(AND I promise not to write anything more on this thread [unless attacked]).

Don't worry Bob, no retaliation is anticipated.  However, be very careful
not to sleep after eating too much pizza.  You'll start to dream...you'll
be walking by some Baroque sheet music on a stand....and then one of those
little trill markings will detach itself from the paper...and bury itself
in the back of your neck...you'll scratch in vain to be rid of it....
meanwhile, several mordents from that page will drop off and crawl up your
pants leg...then more trills and shakes....and some appogiaturas and turns
will fly off and go into your ear...and soon you can't stop the itching,
the biting, the torture, as those little Baroque ornaments slowly eat away
at you from the inside.....:-)

Bill H., who every once in awhile thinks things stared going to hell
after Monteverdi kicked off;-)