Classical Music, Poetry and stuff

[Miss Aeryn]

Yes the duo are wonderful. I have sat in a room with them - and heard them play to me a couple of others. Sheer bliss.

Oh now I'm jealous!

[Prospero]

Well when you come to London you can bathe in the reflected glory - but sitting alone in a room with me.

[Prospero]

By the way the cage piece is 4.22 - and while it is hardly brilliant in itself (how could it be) its a conceptual masterstroke in my opinion - the idea being to make us listen intently to what we never normally hear. The ambience of a room etc. It's a sort of framing of time. Rather in the same way Marcel Duchamp took familiar objects like a urinal and decontextualised them.

[trish]

Of course Cage's 4'22" is sheer perfection. Proof: If you change just one note, the whole thing is ruined.

[Stavros]

Presumably that's the cover version, as John Cage's piece is 4' 33"

Talking of music, A Clockwork Orange -the Musical is in preparation. At first I thought this was a joke, but apparently Burgess, who was also a composer, provided a score, similar, it is said, to West Side Story...I have never been able to get into Burgess's other books, and heard some of his music on Radio 3 years ago, and was similarly unimpressed. Story is here:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/22/...its-happening/

[Prospero]

Thanks Stavros. He's the go to guy for this kind of accuracy.

[Prospero]

Re Burgess. Try "Earthly Powers". Wonderful piece of fiction. "The Long Day Wanes" isn't half bed either.

[robertlouis]

Presumably that's the cover version, as John Cage's piece is 4' 33"

Talking of music, A Clockwork Orange -the Musical is in preparation. At first I thought this was a joke, but apparently Burgess, who was also a composer, provided a score, similar, it is said, to West Side Story...I have never been able to get into Burgess's other books, and heard some of his music on Radio 3 years ago, and was similarly unimpressed. Story is here:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/22/...its-happening/

No Stavros, that was the radio version. Radio 1 wouldn't have it on their playlist unless it was under 4' 33".

And as for the mind-boggling conceit of a musical version of A Clockwork Orange, it couldn't possibly be worse than anything by Andrew fecking Lloyd fecking Webber.

[Prospero]

YOU mean Fecking Andrew Fecking Lloyd Fecking Fecking Webber?

Wasn't a clockwork orange (the film) almost a musical anyway? Music was so crucial in it?

[Miss Aeryn]

Oh gawds, I've stepped on a trigger plate.

CAGE!?!! SERIOUSLY!?!! ARGHHHhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

*cue sounds of running footsteps, a door closing and screaming of 'Lalalalalah' fading to black...*