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Americans call 'classical' i
It is hard for your Empero
is really a slang expression
It limits both its subject and
those of you who insist I mi
staleness of mere objective
word used to princes. Furl
glory in it. And for good r<
much to be proud of and also
preferring the company of
You Americans berate yc
worst sort of anti-intellecti
grave! In short, it is the exp
a fit of jealous pique, often di
us to pieces! Macho mania*
May you die horriblv and i
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reruns of 'Laverne and Shir
not for you, so stop readinj
ON THE OTHER HANI),
some of my subjects have
supplication I must do my c
comments, not only on class
of the peacock that sustains
so that you may admire my $
may eat better, and, perha]
derstand what 'classical' mi
Some of what I will say wil
new to the interested amat<
grotesque and pointless to th
I ril 1 1
Classical J
ON A
A Contemporary Elizabel
Birthday Odes for Queen
j Recorder Concertos by H
Renaissance Suite--"La C
Vespro Delia Beata Vergir
Music of Guillaume Dufa
The Art of Courtly Love
ON DEUTS
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on can
I Any word NOME
from (JSC PRJN&
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Jon&sl A<rric
I Heathen &
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I Need Not ^p] i v
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?B Emperor of the 1
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onsieurs, I am to write a series c
mateur (in the loving sense), and
iow you say in ttnglisss? Ah yes,
music.
>r to do so. Why? The term'classic
covering over 400 years of Wester
myself, both of whom are limitles
ist confine myself to my subject a
reporting, my reply is that 'must
her, I am both an elitist and a si
iason -like the peacock, your Em]
, like that great fowl, I am shy anc
my own kind.
iur artists with ignominy, poverty
Lialist propagands from the crad
pripnpo r\f rv-imr
.v,.vv ui inj i a^c niai nit; coinmc
rag us forth from our hiding places
is, who understand nothing and kr
*o to hell where you'll be forced
ley' and NFL football endlessly!!
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as your emperor, I have decided t
come to me with faces uplifted i
luty, descend just a little, and ms
ical music, but the lifestyle and p]
it. I feel this is only fair for three
greatness several miles above you
ns mnrp imrintl-"4
---v* v/ niipui tuiiuj, ou uic&i you
isic is and what its addiction leads
II be old hat to the connoisseur, but
2ur. Much of what I will say mi;
e hostile (but when is the unwashe
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andel, Telemann, and Sammartin
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not hostile to elegance,
erts the subject of classica
very special reader, v
nrl H know exactly wfcat I ir
for you that I have ere
gallantly spread all mj
LIKE MANY AN A!
ThinHno nf mir
A \lJL 1IIJ ^ApCl 1*
and Shostakovich and
out of existence. Bral
if articles player whose love of m
I the Con- As a young man of
what you ration by playing the p
he grew up. His firs
al music' Joachim, leading viol
n music. Roberts Schumann at
s. And to young composer a fu
ind to the music.
is not a Just as at the begir
10b and I Chopin, he now at its cl
peror has published in his jourr
1 retiring, which he named the
"was called forth to gi
', and the Brahms awoke to fine
1? it- ?
ie 10 me
>n sort, in SO AGAIN, TIMES
; and tear know it's who you kno\
iow less! musician he returns t
to watch appointment? Nothing
! This is that Brahms came fi
monument to the Gre<
No matter-Vienna 1
hat since thirty-five years in the
n tearful seriousness became r<
ike a few South. The time was
hilosophy became the acknowlet
reasons; Grinding nnvprtu u
r" * *1
, so that I nature-those of you wl
may un- hope, or luck will not
morose and withdrawn
it will be A bohemian at heart, \
ght seem
;d savage Behind a rough exter
??^ his music and his love
and came to be fearec
compliments he remar
elderly ladies whom 1
monished, "Why do y<
under Haydn!" Wher
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piayer asKed if he W?
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middle class circles <
Although he complain*
was unable to accept tl
motto was, 'free but ha
he explained, "as to v\
^ should probably undei
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, answer me that, gentlemen!) and co
I music. But so much for appearance
vill withhold judgement, have patien
lean when I say it. It is for you that 1
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/ feathers, trembling irridescent in th
RTIST before, mine has not been ai
3nce one is reminded of the early live
how the shadow of poverty nearly bl
1ms was born in Hamburg, son of a
usic was greater than his accomplish
ten Johannes helped increase the
liano in the dance halls of the slum di
t compositions made an impressior
inist of the day, who made possibl
Dusseldorf. Schumann recognizee
ture leader of the camp dedicated
miniY 1 1 1 1 !1 % ' *
Hung ui mo Ldi ccr iic nau naiiGQ tl
ose performed a similar service for )
lal the famous essay entitled, "Ne\
twenty-year-old "young eagle" as t
ve us the highest ideal expression of
1 himself famous.
have hardly changed much-it's n<
v. But what happens when, as a ver
0 his natal city, Hamburg, to obtaii
;! The directors of the Philharmonic
rom the waterfront. Their snub i
en Grocer mentality.
had better judgement and there he
stronghold of the classical masters. ]
efined by the grace and the congen
ripe for him. His fame filled the w
dged heir of the Viennese masters,
ad given this exacting artist a cui
10 have never been short of cash, enc(
understand an atom of this-Brahi
1 in a black depression, yet he loved r<
le craved boureeoisip rpsnfwt nhiiw??
0 ^VVVUWUHJ .
ior he hid the tenderness that found e
of children. He fought this 'softness
1 for his caustic wit. To a musiciar
ked, "Yes, you have talent. But very
le was rehearsing in "The Creatioi
>u drag it so? Surely you took this i
i a renowned quartet played his wo
is satisfied with the tempo. Brahn
>!"
HETY BACHELOR went his way
of Vienna, the center of an adorir
ed of loneliness and occasionally fell
le responsibility of a sustained relati
ppy!' "It would be as difficult for me
'rite an opera. But after the first e:
'f al/n o I *'
vuuv U OC1/UUU
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mpletely off HBHr
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ice, and will HH
' write. It is
r're plants to g&.^Bglj
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n easy life.
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ighted them BBBfiBHBT
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strict where Time piece
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successful ?-:*
ti an official ...Eli
never forgot g.r/MI
is a lasting
i stayed for
Wis northern
iality of the
'orld and he ^
'H
)uragement, [AKBBRl
ns. could be y??g|Hn
)ugh humor.
..."Portra
xpression in Elisabeth V
himself
1 fishing for
little!" The
1" were admuch
faster '>.
rk the viola
us snapped, SBPeF
through the >
lg coterie. Z
I if> love, he B|J|jvtB3
onship. His IImK
'tomarry," ^
xperience, I
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