ATD: Re: Brevity's Raincheck

[P Taylor]

Well, seems like some happy Scott Joplin tunes could be rockin' the joint.
Seems very Pynchon like to me, some good ol' Maple Leaf Rag, etc...  even
the name Ragtime and all it suggests should get some good treatment.

Could pass by a young Aaron Copland (probably before he really did anything,
but if we're thinking American here...).  Who is also contemporary with G.
Gershwin, who could be nominated for similar treatment.  And I think Louis
Armstrong was born in 1900.

How about Eric Satie?  Some good themes of nothingness in all that tuneless
beauty.  Rachmaninoff is around, even touring the US at some point in
there... you can get recordings of him playing which are quite good- even
some from piano rolls with the ol' star spanglish banner.  He even moved to
the US a bit after the 1917 Revving in his homeland.

And one should always throw some Bowie in.  Just for good listening.

--PT







On 8/17/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Charles Ives, quintessentially American, Modern, &
> Transcendental, and a Pynchon soul-mate, imo.  I wrote
> a couple of posts for the pynchonoid blog back when I
> was reading up on Ives for an editing project:
>
> [...] I've been reading, and enjoying, Jan Swafford's
> biography, Charles Ives: A Life with Music, about
> another Yankee genius who managed to break out of his
> milieu's cultural expectations box. "Creative artists
> were something that, for the most part, old-fashioned
> Connecticut Yankees notably were not," Swafford
> writes. "Practical musicians they were....The rare
> composers of concert music, however, had to justify
> their profession to dubious countrymen....Connecticut
> men of letters were less likely to write imaginative
> fiction than to be teachers, such as Yale's Timothy
> Dwight, or nuts-and-bolts scholars like Noah Webster,
> the dictionary man....Born both a Yankee and an
> artist, Charles Ives was predestined to a divided
> nature." Pynchon's not from Connecticut of course, but
> he shares Ives' Congregationalist roots, and as I've
> been reading this biography I've wondered if Pynchon
> might also have had to overcome a similar cultural
> predisposition against art for art's sake. Another
> similarity between the two artists: Ives mixed popular
> American and high European culture elements to create
> a native American music, just as Pynchon combines pop
> and high culture elements in his work.[...]
>
> ...and a follow-up:
>
> <
> http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/2004/07/offhand-and-fragmentary-memos-show-one.html
> >
>
>
>
>
> --- David Kipen <kipend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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