Pynchon & Jazz

[Terrance]

Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<bach is an easy one to target, because of his
> intensely technical poetry. in rebelling against that,
> metal bands picked the riff salad.>>
> 
> Metal bands should be understood, you say, as in
> rebellion against Bach?
> 
> That's novel ...

My folks make the Ozzy's clan  look like the Partridge family so me and
all my siblings rebelled against metal and took to Bach. At least most
of us learned to make use of the instruments round the house when my
parents were out. My rebellion didn't end in conformity, I actually
married a pianist. My wife doesn't teach our daughter piano. We learned,
after my oldest son failed English, that our kids are rebel is odd ways
and prefer not to have parent-teachers. My daughter's piano instructor
is also a famous pianist. She's from Kazakhstan. I can't quite convince
her that she needn't "watch her english" around me. Her English is far
better than my wife's english, but she so self-conscious about about it
and her accent. I don't know how she and my wife communicate. She speaks
German and Russian and her accent sounds more German than Russian at
times. To look at her you would guess she's Chinese. Ah me, what a
wonderful world.