tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post3800369377603290982..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: On history's clock it was sunsetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-43845442597118637452009-03-11T16:44:00.000+00:002009-03-11T16:44:00.000+00:00Email received:Bob: I thoroughly enjoyed your col...<I>Email received:</I><BR/><BR/>Bob: I thoroughly enjoyed your column and the excellent tribute to Barbara Tuchman. She asked the right questions of history. <BR/><BR/>She was my model as a narrative historian in framing THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND and in constructing a narrative that knit togehter many disparate events to create a cohesive picture of a very complicated (and still misunderstood) time.<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/>Judith Nies.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-56953680755588373282009-02-27T16:39:00.000+00:002009-02-27T16:39:00.000+00:00Yes, I'm afraid this is all so, Pliable. I did thi...Yes, I'm afraid this is all so, Pliable. I did think that perhaps Jessica was just seized with the impulse to be a bit impish and stir things up, and so, hugely though I disagreed, I took it in good part. But it rather quickly got a bit out of hand on both sides, notably with the extraordinary, ad feminam diatribe from 'newmusicologist' in the Independent, and then with Jessica's own Lloyd Webber comparison, which was way OTT, not worthy of her, and had me reaching for the antihypertensives.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-11813741526644288642009-02-27T14:08:00.000+00:002009-02-27T14:08:00.000+00:00Good point Philip. I too found the Sounds and Fury...Good point Philip. I too found the <I>Sounds and Fury</I> comment about Elgar silly.<BR/><BR/>But, I have to say, I found Jessica's piece about Handel equally silly. It could have been written by Norman Lebrecht. <BR/><BR/>Sadly, that style of controversial sound-bite journalism is what the paid for media wants these days. Which is why so many people read music blogs.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1089781969096217842009-02-27T11:46:00.000+00:002009-02-27T11:46:00.000+00:00I too am in total agreement re the Elgar. And this...I too am in total agreement re the Elgar. And this is a timely corrective, as Sounds and Fury took an almighty, albeit vacuous, swipe at Elgar yesterday as a device to denigrate Jessica Duchen. Or at Jessica as a device to get at Elgar, who knows with ACD.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-61392750307497276692009-02-26T15:53:00.000+00:002009-02-26T15:53:00.000+00:00You are not eccentric at all, Pliable. The Elgar ...You are not eccentric at all, Pliable. The Elgar Second IS one of the great works of the 20th Century.Drew80https://www.blogger.com/profile/17848576924497372868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-19163558085480270272009-02-26T12:59:00.000+00:002009-02-26T12:59:00.000+00:00Email received:Hooray for eccentricity.I agree wit...<I>Email received:</I><BR/><BR/>Hooray for eccentricity.<BR/><BR/>I agree with you wholeheartedly about the Elgar (yet, I dissagree with you about Liszt's Fausy Symphony). The 2nd Symphony is in my top five favorite works. I've loved it ever since I was eight, when I obtained the HMV set--on 78's!!!--of Elgar conducting it. The EMI recording you feature is also one of my favorite performances. There's an Earlier Boult EMI of the 2nd that was re-issued on Great Recordings of the Century many years ago. That performance impressed my by its sheer violence, especially in the Scherzo. This work is definitely a statement of "things to come" in the 20th Century. <BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/>David CavlovicPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com