tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6359259735938583344..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Music and place - the neglected dimensionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-17747041230040226722013-02-24T18:50:07.264+00:002013-02-24T18:50:07.264+00:00For a while, the internet made somewhat of a diffe...For a while, the internet made somewhat of a difference. Our early (1995-2005) online radio show helped dozens of composers gain visibility ... and keep it because of their early virtual prominence. But as internet geography began to look more like physical geography -- groups in New York or Berlin or London, with publicity organized in the same urban-associated ways -- then that leveling once again tilted toward density.<br /><br />The one promise that has been delivered, I think, is <i>availability</i>. The hunt for exclusivity and 'nichiness' actually helps classical/nonpop. Most composers today have already been heard far more than Mozart in his own time, and I would guess most of them are actually listened to with interest.Kalvoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00466624332215821786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-78151492618195670862013-02-20T17:21:30.691+00:002013-02-20T17:21:30.691+00:00Kalvos, it is a good point you make. Here in the U...Kalvos, it is a good point you make. Here in the UK the media is totally London-centric.<br /><br />A few days ago I asked whatever happened to classical music's long tail? Similarly I could ask whatever happened to the promise that the internet would level the geographic playing field? <br /><br />It would be interesting to look at all the promises made for new media and work out how many have actually been delivered. Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-60283787631732207842013-02-20T16:57:09.431+00:002013-02-20T16:57:09.431+00:00One of the problems with geography is what those o...One of the problems with geography is what those of us who actually live outside the cities in 'fragrant' places actually experience -- we are <i>from</i> the 'fragrant place', not <i>taking from</i> the 'fragrant place' and depositing it elsewhere as plundered goods. So it is not the dimension that is neglected so much as the composers who exist within that dimension. Even with the Internet (which I've used since 10 years pre-Web), the lack of a city association dismisses our work.Kalvoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00466624332215821786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-40271481312304695312013-02-20T14:11:39.775+00:002013-02-20T14:11:39.775+00:00Could the Spillville mural and the cover of Two Sc...Could the Spillville mural and the cover of <i>Two Scarlet Songbirds</i> be by the same artist? - there is a certain similarity in style.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-46229187873603312542013-02-20T14:06:10.840+00:002013-02-20T14:06:10.840+00:00Julia O'Connell has commented via Facebook:
T...Julia O'Connell has commented via Facebook:<br /><br />There's a lovely children's book about Dvorak in Spillville, writing of the American Quartet, called Two Scarlet Songbirds; I read it with my young son, who plays violin, in order to introduce him to the Quartet.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scarlet-Songbirds-Carole-Lexa-Schaefer/dp/0375810226/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361369144&sr=1-1Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com