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From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.classical
Subject: Re: Leonard Bernstein
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Date: 24 Oct 90 00:19:14 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.014225.7883@jpradley.uucp> <942@heurikon.heurikon.com> <1989.27241379@spacm1.uucp>
Reply-To: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson)
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In article <1989.27241379@spacm1.uucp> resmgt04@spacm1.uucp writes:
>In article <942@heurikon.heurikon.com>, gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) writes:
>>                  I think that it was also the most explicit display
>> of violence and energy that I'd ever seen a conductor do, which always
>> left me wondering about whether they might actually do that about all
>> that ponderous, boring symphonic stuff. 

>Classical music lovers (people who realize that that "ponderous,
>boring, symphonic stuff" isn't) can only shake their heads at this.

I'm a quote classical music lover unquote and I can do more than that.
I can bet you, oh, a doughnut that Gregory Taylor is too, for
instance, and that he was writing with a kind of fond irony about what
he felt as a Young Person being exposed to this stuff for the first
time.  I don't know about you, but my responses were similar to
Gregory's--we don't always react with great sophistication when we're
eight or ten years old.  Personally, I always went for the LOUD parts.

>As far as Lenny goes, it's a great shame that he died so young, but it's
>an even greater shame that he could have been alive today had he not smoked 
>cigarettes.

Then again, it was his life to spend, and if he felt that cigarettes
were integral to his pleasure in life, who are we to deny it?  Lenny
wasn't some sort of scarce resource to be husbanded like petroleum.

-- 
   Rod Johnson  *  rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu  *  (313) 650 2315

            "I happen to sweat profusely."  -- Ted Kaldis