A musical Clockwork Orange

[Jude Bloom]

Has anyone else read ReJoyce & Burgess on music? He wrote a libretto/play about Mozart that seemed a little overwrought but was interesting. The treatment of Ludwig is pretty one-sided in ACO, but I always chalked that up to the narrator being, well, unreliable.

The movie is better than the book, cause Kubrick chose to follow the US edition, which (wisely I think) cut out Burgess' last, 'redemptive' chapter. Burgess argued that without the redemption, the book wasn't a novel, cause no one changes or learns. But I found his last chapter as heavy-handed as Dostoevsky's in Crime & Punishment. 



On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:32 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

singin in the rain will never be the same again

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:



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Subject:	Re: A musical Clockwork Orange
Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:53:49 -0400
From:	Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To:	Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>

On 6/29/2012 2:14 PM, Keith Davis wrote:
> I thought it was already a miisical, feaaturing old Ludwig Van?
> 

and all you feel like is going out and invading Poland

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> On Jun 29, 2012 1:37 PM, "Phillip Greenlief" <pgsaxo at pacbell.net> wrote:
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> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18628002
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18638173
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> i don't know, man - i hate musicals. i know burgess was a frustrated composer - he said as much in his tract Re:Joyce, but i just don't feel the need to see A.C.O. turned into something "other" ... the novel is pretty good, right? and the film is really good. i just can't help but think this is ultimately aimed at softening the work at some level. from the sounds of the songs on the "trailer" here, ew, it just sounds awful, sounds trite, and the work is anything but. 






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