Brevity's Raincheck

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I'm re-reading USA by Dos Passos, which covers c.1900-1929.  Contains strains of lyrics from various pop tunes of the time.  I guess you could look up recordings of some of them, though it would probably make for some excruciating listening.

Laura
-----Original Message-----
>From: David Kipen <kipend at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 17, 2006 4:36 PM
>To: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Brevity's Raincheck
>
>As I read everything about 1893-1920 or so that I can get my hands on, I'm
>wondering what to listen to while I read. In other words, how would the
>musically inclined among you complete the following by no means exhaustive
>series?
>
>V. (Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Eric Dolphy, Clifford Brown)
>The Crying of Lot 49 (Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra)
>Gravity's Rainbow (Charlie Parker's Cherokee; assorted Rossini, Beethoven,
>Webern)
>Slow Learner (John Barry's James Bond scores?)
>Vineland (Bach's *Sleeper's Awake *cantata)
>Mason & Dixon (assorted Quantz)
>Against the Day (??????????)
>
>All ears,
>David
>
>On 8/17/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 1000 pages is room for a lot. Wonder what he'll leave
>> out?
>>
>>
>> --- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I'm wondering if Sacco and Vanzetti will appear in
>> > AtD.  Their lives,
>> > prior to the crime for which they were arrested in
>> > 1920, fit nicely
>> > into the book's period.
>> >
>>
>>
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