Music to read by

[pynchonoid]

I got hooked on "The Well Tempered Clavier" a few
years ago, when my son was playing some of the pieces,
a massive work that repays repeated listening.

I wasn't surprised to learn that Charles Ives began
his days, early each morning, by playing a Prelude and
Fugue from that work. 

Another fun fact, Ives' biographer reports that the
composer used to go to Broadway theaters and hire
musicians to perform his works, as a way to hear them
live. And, he used the fortune he made in life
insurance to help support other composers, to get
music published and performed, etc. 


--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> Bach's "Art Of Fugue", any version---all versions,
> all versions all at once---sprinkle in viol consorts
> playing suites by slightly lesser masters---Byrd,
> Dowland, Purcell. Espicially Dowland, perhaps a few
> of his songs:
> 
> "In darkness let me dwell,
> the ground shall sorrow be;
> The roof dedpair to bar all cheerful light from me;
> The walls of marble black that moistened still shall
> weep;
> My music hellish jarring sounds to banish freindly
> sleep.
> Thus wedded to my woes, and bedded to my tomb,
> O let me living, living die, til death do come.
> 
>  "Throw in "On Land". Stir about a quart of Kirsch
> into your favorite hot toddy while reading your
> battered and underlined copy of "49".  Stand back as
> all hell breaks loose.
>  -------------- Original message
> ----------------------
> From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> > JOHN MARK EBERHART BIBLIOFILES
> > Music to read by
> > 
> > "Erik Satie, "The Early Piano Works." A double-CD
> set with a run time
> > of 142 minutes. Stir in a rainy night, a Thomas
> Pynchon novel and a
> > coffee liqueur and you might achieve
> enlightenment. Or have scary
> > dreams."
> >
>
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/15298618.htm
> 
> 
> 


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