Simpsons, German

[joeallonby]

on 11/7/03 1:03 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

  
> Cellos sound better than Tubas?

No they don't. I heard a tuba player with Max Roache's band a while back who
sold me on the instrument. When he stood up to take a solo, the crowd rose
with him.

> La Vita E Bella (1997) Italian sounds better than German too.
> German, to American ears, sounds ugly. French sounds beautiful.
> London English sounds smarter than Brooklyn Black English.

Have you ever heard French rap music? (Chime in here Monroe.) It doesn't
flow very well, but they dress nicely.

On the other hand, I once heard the Handel & Haydn Society performance of
Mozart's (!) version of the "Messiah". The German was breathtakingly
beautiful.

I guess that as a singer and musician, I hear language differently from you.
Try reading Vineland aloud sometime. Or On the Road. The cadence, phrasing,
and rhythm are beautiful. That's one of the reasons why I love Pynchon. Pull
a sentence out of Gravity's Rainbow and read it aloud.