tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6933530867494226813..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Making music accessible desirable and differentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-45730764314904992262007-12-01T20:41:00.000+00:002007-12-01T20:41:00.000+00:00Don, it is an interesting point that you make.One ...Don, it is an interesting point that you make.<BR/><BR/>One of my birthday presents was the Brilliant Classics Mozart Edition. <BR/><BR/>It has filled in a lot of gaps in my collection, has given hours of pleasure and discovery, and costs ridiculously little per CD - around 50 pence to be precise. <BR/><BR/>http://music.brilliantclassics.com/epages/joan.storefront/4751c6a8006d42c7271ed5d385f40715/Product/View/92540Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-68869568311967826192007-12-01T20:08:00.000+00:002007-12-01T20:08:00.000+00:00Older classical music (Mozart, Bach, etc) is very ...Older classical music (Mozart, Bach, etc) is very accessible: you can buy box sets of CDs for much lower prices per disc than are charged for non-classical music, especially from Brilliant. The problem is that recent music is not very accessible. There are few CDs, most peole get no chance to go to a live concert, and anyway a single live hearing of a new piece is usually just bewildering. You need to own a recording so that it can sink in.Don Coxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11232752398252841794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-32510128620079239462007-11-30T21:52:00.000+00:002007-11-30T21:52:00.000+00:00Anonymous has sent in this comment:“Enrico Chapela...<I>Anonymous has sent in this comment:</I><BR/><BR/>“Enrico Chapela's Inguesu transmutes the cheers and jeers of the 1999 Mexico vs. Brazil soccer match into an Ivesian collage of chatter, blast and slide. In it, the wind players donned the Mexicans' green jerseys, the brasses the Brazilians' yellow; Conductor Ms. Alondra de la Parra sported a neutral black, with a whistle around her neck.” ….<BR/><BR/><I>Thanks for that anon. And I know it's not football, but Arthur Honegger wrote an orchestral work called <B>Rugby</B></I>.<BR/><BR/>http://www.guidelive.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/performingarts/stories/DN-phil_1121gl.ART.State.Edition1.37099b4.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/honegger.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com