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Comments on: Talking To Your “Homies” https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/09/27/talking-to-your-homies/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:47:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/09/27/talking-to-your-homies/comment-page-1/#comment-17903 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:46:06 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/09/27/talking-to-your-homies/#comment-17903 Wolfgang skated pretty close to the edge in his operas and had problems with censors, so the added bit was lily gilding for the sake of outrage. It also misses the point that neither Buddha nor Muhammad are considered gods by the faithful, just inspired teachers, so adding them with the heads of Jesus and Poseidon misses the theme and displays the director as an “outsider” trying to make an “insider” point.

As I remember my music appreciation and Karl Haas, there is plenty of room in a classical score for improvisation if you are a skilled musician.

Bush has enough trouble with standard English; he should stop trying to be cute.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/09/27/talking-to-your-homies/comment-page-1/#comment-17900 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:22:02 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/09/27/talking-to-your-homies/#comment-17900 I believe that many people feel [Mozart] was a pretty competent lad when it came to opera, even without the added flourishes.

I don’t think for a moment he would have hesitated to add the flourishes. Every composer of opera from Monteverdi to Philip Glass has understood that it’s all about the show. What’s a little sacrilege, in exchange for a controversy that leads to larger audiences?

And here I was, hoping against hope that Bush was making a reference to the Pythagorean comma. Twelve fifths do not equal seven octaves. Pythagoras knew this. So did the Chinese, probably a few years earlier. Without some accommodation of the Pythagorean comma, some “temperament” as it’s called, Western music (which depends on being able to make music in different keys within the span of a single work) disintegrates.

Bush is really good at force-fitting things, cutting off the parts he doesn’t like, making things fit where they really don’t, and making things disintegrate. He also has a terrible temperament. There are other kinds of commas in music; maybe Bush can have one named after him, perhaps the difference between drinking twelve fifths and drinking seven liters, or some such.

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