almost TMoP: unknown blogger's open letter to JM Coetzee

[Lawrence Bryan]

Don't know about most of these. There used to be several gamelans in  
my area but after Lou Harrison died in 2003 - he wrote a fair number  
of pieces in gamelan style - I haven't heard much from that musical  
quarter. Japanese drumming, taiko, seems to have taken over here.   
Cage is fun to read about, imaginative and, at times, thought  
provoking. (His absolute zero, 4'33", for example.) I have some albums  
of both Reich and Reilly. Not favorites but not discarded either. I  
have nothing by Glass.

Lawrence

On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> I guess everyone's got that one special type of music that drives  
> them mad,
> and for most people that music is by Philip Glass. For this person,  
> after
> listening to Alvin Lucier or Balinese dance music, or John Cage or  
> Metallica,
> or Xenakis or Anthony Braxton or Ornette Coleman or Buckhead or Skid  
> Roper
> & Mojo Nixon, the music of Philip Glass is a balm for the soul.
>
> You might want to try Steve Reich's "music for 18 musicians" or  
> Terry Reilly's
> "in C" before giving up on minimalism and then again you might not.
>
> On Nov 23, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:
>
>> Lawrence, you are a very fine fellow, but you're wagging the dog on
>> this one.  The soundtrack of Kundun alone would win Glass a place
>> among the immortals...
>>
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Lawrence Bryan
>> Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
>> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
>> Cc: pynchon -l
>> Sent: Nov 23, 2008 3:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: almost TMoP: unknown blogger's open letter to JM Coetzee
>>
>>
>> great??? Yuck. Music that any good computer program could write.
>> Repetitive, inane, totally without and redeeming qualities.  As
>> interesting as listening to an amplified heart beat.
>>
>> I've walked out of films with his music drowning out the dialog, so
>> dominating all one can think of is the mute button.
>>
>> But then what do I know? :)
>>
>> Lawrence
>>
>> On Nov 23, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>>> You probably know by now that the great American composer Philip
>>> Glass has written an opera based on your novel Waiting for the
>>> Barbarians.......
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>>
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