[pianotech] Prepared frickin'piano and damaged bass strings (going OT)

[Terry Beckingham]

As far as I am concerned, prepared piano pieces are not music. Anyone 
wanting to use a prepared piano should be required to provide his/her own 
instrument and should not be permitted to deface or damage someone else's 
piano.

Terry Beckingham RPT


At 07:10 PM 2/20/2013 +0000, you wrote:
>This extract from an interview with Earl Wild by George Bedell of SHUMEI 
>magazine is apropos:
>
>"Well let's face it: Schoenberg was a sour pickle. His early works were 
>wonderful. I love them. But when he decided to put his foot down on all 
>that had been done before, when he got into that 12-tone serialism it was 
>the great mistake of his life. The composer Korngold said that Schoenberg 
>played the dirtiest trick on music that had ever been done. That's never 
>been in print, but I can tell you that that is what he said".
>
>Bernard Herrman in an interview on a CD I have of his film music mentions 
>the same comment by Korngold.
>
>Personally, I am a sucker for a "chune".  There is surely some merit in 
>the argument by John Mauceri of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, that it was 
>Broadway and movies that kept decent composing alive in the decades 
>following the first world war, when so-called "serious" composers got into 
>twelve-tone stuff.
>
>There was also the comment by conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Asked "Did you 
>ever conduct any Stockhausen?" he replied "No, but I once trod in some".
>
>Best regards,
>
>David.
><http://www.davidboyce.co.uk>www.davidboyce.co.uk
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