I know what you mean. The first time I heard the World Saxophone Quartet or Art Ensemble of Chicago, I was a bit surprised. A lot less melodic and more atonal than Ellington or Basie. But all they did was take the extensions of Bird & Trane to their logical conclusions. Same with Bartok. You can hear the beginnings of what he did in some of the work by Brahms or Beethoven. Or even influenced by Black & Tan Fantasy. They just kept working it further down the line.
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Are the ‘70s done on AC?
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I know what you mean. The first time I heard the World Saxophone Quartet or Art Ensemble of Chicago, I was a bit surprised. A lot less melodic and more atonal than Ellington or Basie. But all they did was take the extensions of Bird & Trane to their logical conclusions. Same with Bartok. You can hear the beginnings of what he did in some of the work by Brahms or Beethoven. Or even influenced by Black & Tan Fantasy. They just kept working it further down the line.
I'd say "farther" rather than "further".
The farther the speaker is from me, the better I like it.
"Further" and "farther" are not interchangeable. "Farther" is more than "far" but "further" is closer to "additionally", as in, "We will discuss this further". To complicate things FURTHER, "farther" can be described as "further than "far""!
"Further" and "farther" are not interchangeable. "Farther" is more than "far" but "further" is closer to "additionally", as in, "We will discuss this further". To complicate things FURTHER, "farther" can be described as "further than "far""!
Exactly. And that is why I believer that far away is the best place for more recent "classical" music. Very far. Antarctic far. Lunar... no, Martian far.
And the further you discuss this, the farther away that awful sound will be. If we go out into the hall... or better yet, out the front door, we will be ever farther away from those 20th Century pseudo-classical compositions when they appear on the radio.
Music changes. It has to. That said, I would join you in banishing much of the noise composed in the twentieth century—especially the aptly named "minimal" variety. One of the worst performances I ever attended was a twentieth-century retrospective at Carnegie Hall in which one of the pieces was played by buffeting the side of a grand piano and plucking its strings!
Some pleasant examples of modern classical music, in my humble opinion, include a few pieces by composers known for their film scores, videlicet, Ennio Morricone and Ludivico Einaudi.
OT.....but was it Cheech and Chong that did the spoof on "Day-O"?
No,no....still too loud....go out in the hall......("DAAAAAAY-O......!)
No, still too loud, man.....go outside.....(".......daaay-o.....")
STILL too loud, man...like, go across the street.....,etc.
IMHO.....Cheech and Chong had some "classical compositions" of their own......!!;0
OT.....but was it Cheech and Chong that did the spoof on "Day-O"?
No,no....still too loud....go out in the hall......("DAAAAAAY-O......!)
No, still too loud, man.....go outside.....(".......daaay-o.....")
STILL too loud, man...like, go across the street.....,etc.
IMHO.....Cheech and Chong had some "classical compositions" of their own......!!;0
That was Stan Freberg from 1957. Freberg replaced Jack Benny's radio time slot the same year. I received the entire series as a gift on CD. The most recent thing he did was hosting "When Radio Was", after replacing the ailing Art Fleming. As a public service announcement, Freberg once drained Lake Michigan and refilled it with hot chocolate and a mountain of whipped cream, while a giant maraschino cherry was dropped like a bomb, by the Royal Canadian Air Force, to the cheers of 25,000 extras, viewing from the shoreline! It showed how radio could do things that television can't, through the mind's eye.
"Your Song" on WEZV. EARLY 70s. Plus compared to most of what the station plays, that's like Perry Como or Nat King Cole.
I thought the music in one grocery store I go to was soft AC, but "Livin' on a Prayer" was played, and a Rihanna song. Still, "We Are Family" was played last time I was there, and a song which sounds like it is from the 70s with the words "Louie Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie Louie Lou_I".
"Brother Louie," a 1973 hit by one-hit-wonder band Stories. It was a gender-reversed clone of Janis Ian's "Society's Child," with a white guy bringing home a black girlfriend and running into prejudice from his family. The song was originally recorded by Hot Chocolate, and their version was a hit overseas.
I played that song in college and even have an aircheck of it. I can't believe it was that long ago!
I just wonder if that store that played "Brother Louie" has different music in different stores, or different music at different times of the day. Except for that Rihanna song, I could assume they play classic hits now instead of soft AC like they used to.
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