The objectivity of Bryce Morrison (chuckle!)
Thu, Jan 12 2012, 8:19PM
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RE: The objectivity of Bryce Morrison (chuckle!)
While we are welcoming the new member of this forum, I can hardly see he's trying to "cool" any argumentative tone....
Thus my use of 'pithy'.... We shall see.
Thu, Jan 12 2012, 11:29PM
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RE: The objectivity of Bryce Morrison (chuckle!)
BarTok wrote....
I would, however, quite like to further open up the debate over the playing ability of cocktail bar pianists.
Is it the fact that they play in cocktail bars that makes them apparently so technichally inferior to musicians who play elsewhere?
This comment and the merits (or otherwise) of popular music and jazz discussed on other forums takes me back to an obituary which caught my attention in The Times some years ago. It referred to Geoff Goddard who I remembered as a minor pop singer from my youth and I was surprised to see him mentioned in that paper. What I didn't know until then is he was a graduate of the Royal College of Music whose ambition was to be a concert pianist. When this didn't happen, in order to make a living, he submitted some songs he had written to a music publisher who put him in touch with pop record maker Joe Meek (who later achieved notoriety by shooting dead his landlady followed by himself). Goddard wrote a string of hits for Meek's artists and recorded some of his songs himself. They then fell out over royalties and Goddard lost a court case. At the time of his death Goddard was earning a living clearing tables in the cafeteria of Reading Univesity with occasional employment tinkling the ivories at university functions such as the vice-chancellor's cocktail parties. I'm not sure now quite what is the point of this other than your cocktail bar pianist may be a serious musician who didn't quite make it!
Fri, Jan 13 2012, 8:41AM
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RE: The objectivity of Bryce Morrison (chuckle!)
I suppose you could even count Shostakovich as a cocktail bar pianist, the young composer making a living playing to the masses while they watched the soviet cinema. But what to mix with beetroot juice and what to call the cocktail ..... communism on the rocks, red mist, stalin sling ???
Fri, Jan 13 2012, 9:23AM
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RE: The objectivity of Bryce Morrison (chuckle!)
I suppose you could even count Shostakovich as a cocktail bar pianist, the young composer making a living playing to the masses while they watched the soviet cinema. But what to mix with beetroot juice and what to call the cocktail ..... communism on the rocks, red mist, stalin sling ???
... Brodsky Sunrise???
Vic.
Fri, Jan 13 2012, 11:01AM
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RE: The objectivity of Bryce Morrison (chuckle!)
I suppose you could even count Shostakovich as a cocktail bar pianist, the young composer making a living playing to the masses while they watched the soviet cinema. But what to mix with beetroot juice and what to call the cocktail ..... communism on the rocks, red mist, stalin sling ???
... Brodsky Sunrise???
Vic.
Screwball?
I think, Vic, even without our recent entente cordiale, you should be "disinclined" to "endorse the forms of expression"...regardless of your support of the substance...(Simply, for reasons of politeness and civilised ways of communication).
Besides, it doesn't seem that the initiator of the language used and the subsequent comments were the result of "frustration, or even exasperation". They appear to be more...belligerent, than disappointed.
Anyhow, if we have to go to the salons of art debate ring again (which is unfair after the entente...), I will defend the necessary corner(s), but, don't put the blame on me. I thought there is a more general will for avoiding the slippery ways of debating and...face the music and...perhaps...dance.
Best wishes to you too,
Parla