Top Five
Tue, Feb 19 2013, 4:27PM
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RE: Top Five
Actually come to think of it you could have an all female affair.
No place for the gorgeous Rebecca Clarke and Lili Boulanger to make ones interplanetary adventure more interesting?
Tue, Feb 19 2013, 5:10PM
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Jane, once more you are flat wrong in your judgement about me "having nothing". I would not take a place in the "spaceship", in the first place. I would leave it for all of you to experience the ramifications of the "consolation" process pain.
Parla
Tue, Feb 19 2013, 8:48PM
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RE: Top Five
Lot 49.
Parla does that make as much sense as your last post?
'...the only way she (Oedipa) could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it (America), was an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia...'
Thomas Pynchon
Tue, Feb 19 2013, 11:37PM
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RE: Top Five RE: Top Five
Lot 49.
Parla does that make as much sense as your last post?
'...the only way she (Oedipa) could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it (America), was an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia...'
Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 - a brilliant novel. Unfortunately beyond Parla's intellectual grasp, I fear. It is quite tricky to follow...
Wed, Feb 20 2013, 1:32AM
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RE: Top Five
It is a great book Craig! Glad you like it. It isn't easy no - but basically, as I'm sure you know, everyone in the book seems to know about the evil Trystero conspiracy apart from Oedipa herself. The underground postal system is the conspiracy, who use waste bins disguised as post boxes. Such a good idea!
Some of Pynchon's throwaway jokes are so funny, as in Vivaldi's kazoo concerto (Fort Wayne Settecento Ensemble's Variorum recording) and the absolute bloodbath of the mock Jacobean tragedy The Courier's Tragedy. One that always makes me laugh is the reference to the English printer Inigo Barfstable - as in barf stable!
(I'm just teasing Parla as I'm sure you've grasped. It was his multiple responses to everyone on the Bruckner thread that reads like a kind of paranoia! And it was post 49 so I couldn't resist).
I'd recommend the book to anyone as a send-up of the crazy modern world of sixties America. And of course, we must be allowed to take books into the spaceship surely?!
Anyway, after the book interlude, back to the Top Five!
Mark
Wed, Feb 20 2013, 6:34AM
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RE: Top Five
It's O.K., Mark. If my post accidentally reached the #49, you may tease me, if you must. I also teased Jane for her post #14 (another ominous number for some other places and for about the 1/5 of the world population) of Feb.19. I meant to say how painful it is when you come to a consolation situation and you inevitably have to recall the past days of happiness.
By the way, if there is a sort of paranoia (an entertaining and harmless one) is the inventive idea of the initiator of the thread about the last spaceship ready to go with some fortunate music lovers on board, with their top fives.
As for whether and what is in "my intellectual grasp", leave it for those who actually know me. Otherwise, anything else said for any other poster is simply (and unwittingly) foolish.
Parla
Wed, Feb 20 2013, 11:50AM
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RE: Top Five
I hope Parla's psychiatrist knows him, but even if he does, it’s clearly of not much help to the rest of the world.
Wed, Feb 20 2013, 1:21PM
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RE: Top Five
I hope Parla's psychiatrist knows him, but even if he does, it’s clearly of not much help to the rest of the world.
He is, how you say, ein difficult patient, yah? We may to consider increasing his medication if these delusions continue.
Wed, Feb 20 2013, 4:52PM
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Not bad, Lilian. Keep on trying. You may do it better next time.
As for Herr Doktor, what can I say: Willkommen!..
Parla
Fri, Feb 22 2013, 1:48AM
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Vaughan Williams
Sibelius
Ravel
Mozart (if only for sym 29)
Bach
Mon, Feb 25 2013, 11:55PM
#12
RE: Top Five
Jeez louise, this is a tough question! Here are the first that spring to mind:
Claude Debussy
J.S. Bach
Jean Sibelius
Giacinto Scelsi
The anonymous composers of El Cant de la Sibil·la
Tue, Feb 26 2013, 1:59PM
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Since it is the oscar season , how about 5 film composers:
john Williams
Jerry Goldsmith
Malcolm Arnold
Patrick Doyle
Rachel Portman
All, I think have either won or been nominated for an oscar.
DSM
Tue, Feb 26 2013, 2:31PM
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RE: Top Five
Brumas, hi! and welcome back!
Is it really "The anonymous composers of El Cant de la Sibil·la" that you choose, or the brilliant Jordi Savall who has assembled glorious music making on the most slender of scaffolds!
Chris
Tue, Feb 26 2013, 3:12PM
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RE: Top Five
The anonymous composers of El Cant de la Sibil·la
Brumas, just saw your other thread about this work. Which of the two CDs is especially recommended?
>Surely, for consistency's sake, that should be Brokofiev?
I would have thought that Prokofiev, being an amateur astronomer, would want to join me and watch the event. Your going to have to go for Bruckner or Bax, or how about a lady composer Amy Beach perhaps. Actually come to think of it you could have an all female affair:
-Fanny Mendelssohn
-Clara Schumann
-Elizabeth Lutyens
-Debbie Wiseman
-Rachel Portman
DSM