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"Likewise when avant-garde composers were purging music of its expressive content ..."Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
Why aren't commentators stopped from writing b*llocks of this kind?
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Well while Gillian Moore sports that irritating asymmetrical haircut, what else can we expect S_A?Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post"Likewise when avant-garde composers were purging music of its expressive content ..."
Why aren't commentators stopped from writing b*llocks of this kind?
Some nifty concerts
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Actually, I do understand what this is intended to mean (but it could have been put better ?) in relation to what one intends ones work to communicate.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
I'd be surprised if Gillian said that the composers of the 20th Century avant-garde created music that wasn't expressive !Comment
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It'd be laughable if this cliché weren't so prevalent in "Classical Music Journalism". It just wouldn't happen in Art journalism a Retrospective of Stanley Spencer working "when avant-garde painters were purging Art of colour"? A statement you'll never see. So why are the writers on Music so crassly dim (and so dimly crass)?Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post"Likewise when avant-garde composers were purging music of its expressive content ..."
Why aren't commentators stopped from writing b*llocks of this kind?
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Mine, too - but also hers: "purging Music of its expressive content" most certainly could - and should - "have been put better".Originally posted by amateur51 View PostMy bad
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Perhaps as one receives those polite rejection letters one can at least appreciate the qualifications of those charged with recruiting such writers?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Many times, many times, ferney... but not always, though it has to be said, the one mag I ever wrote for went out of business.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostAh! You, too? 
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We aren't sure WHO wrote the copy for the website ...... or are we ?Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
(and who is this "WE" )
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We do know that Gillian Moore wrote the Guardian article, though, and she should know that BB was 31 at the time of the Peter Grimes premiere, not 32. Unimportant, perhaps, but careless.Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostComment
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Where can one see this alarming barnet, ams?Originally posted by amateur51 View PostWell while Gillian Moore sports that irritating asymmetrical haircut, what else can we expect S_A?"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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She did a telly chat with Tom Service during the Proms about New Music,when Tom was sporting a curly look that would not have gone amiss in Cruft's (says he whose head is mostly baldOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
). I'll see what I can find.
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