Montal and Aristoxenes (wasHT Experience)

[Richard Moody]

Yes there are super black and white films.  How many realize that the
beginning and end of Wizard of Oz is in BW ? A storm on the prairies can get
black and white but I believe the use of BW there went beyond that as
commentary.  Since there "is no color in ET" I suppose a comment might be
that ET is really BW. ---ric

----- Original Message -----
From: Ward & Probst <wardprobst@cst.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:49 AM
Subject: RE: Montal and Aristoxenes (wasHT Experience)


> <<Kind of like black and white was developed before color and now every
one
> wants color.  Or Stereo from Hi Fi.   Who wants to go back to Hi Fi? No
one.
> Who wants to go back to black and white?  OK  some do and I can see
> .     ---ric>>
> Just a different thought on this- I was a cinema
> buff for a few years and one thing I learned about was the contrast
between
> black & white(BW) and color movies. (I will lump all the various color
> techniques together for simplicity). Filmmakers generally bemoaned the
loss
> of the dramatic lighting and shading effects available in BW when the
first
> color pictures were made. Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind were both
shot
> in 1939 and both great movies but the effects Welles achieved in Kane
would
> have been impossible in color. The Last Picture Show was shot in BW about
> 1970 to reinforce director Bogdonavitch's vision of the Rolling Plains
area
> of North Texas in the drought of the 1950's. The point is that both
> techniques are capable of producing equally great results- the end product
> being served by the method of the artist.
> So it is with tempering in my view. To do only equal temperament or only
> unequal temperament is limiting to you as a technician. What really
matters
> in the end is that music  is made that touches the spirit and inspires the
> soul.
>
> Best,
> Dale
> Dale Probst, RPT
> Member, TEAM20001
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> Reno, NV --July 11-15, 2000
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