The refugee from the thuggish fringe of academia falls silent

After having taken a world-class drubbing from a schmuck
from nowhere, the Julliard instructor Dante Rosati
now slinks away, tail between his legs, having soiled
himself with fear and rage, and whimpering like a
little boy bitten by the puppy he tried to set on fire.

After initially deciding it would be a clever debating
tactic to use infantile name-calling and outright lies,
Dante Rosati got an education about the importance of
telling the truth in public. Interesting, that. Isn't
Dante supposed to be the instructor? But Dante Rosati has
not only been shown to be morally bankrupt -- as we
have seen, Dante Rosati has proven himself intellectually
bankrupt as well.

Can we not expect something better than Dante Rosati
from Julliard?

What's the problem? Don't the people at Julliard have
money to hire peole who actually know something about
music history, or about music theory?

The world is full of yutzes who can twang the guitar.
Elaine Walker, a superbly talented microtonalist on
the East Coast, has told me "You cannot possibly believe
how many people there are in Boston playing the guitar."

Surely talented guitarists must be a dime a dozen. Cannot
Julliard find one who is not addicted to telling lies and
indulging in hysterical name-calling in public?

Cannot Julliard manage to find an instructor with at least
some moiety of knowledge of music history, or at least
a modicum of basic awareness of music theory from the
18th century to the present?

I know it's too much to ask to require an instructor
at Julliard to actually have heard of any of the result
of psychoacoustics for the last 130 years -- after all,
the typical music professor lags far behind the times,
and thinks of Helmholtz's 1865 theory as being "cutting
edge" and "daring."

But I'm not asking for miracles here. Any schlemiel can
twang a guitar. Why not demand a little scholarship
along with the twanging?
---------
--mclaren

*yawn*

boobula- it was fun playing wif you for like 5 minutes but i'm bored now.

if you can tell me in 25 words or less (yeah, *right*)where you think major
triads came from if not from the harmonic series, i might wake up enuf to
continue, but otherwise...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xenharmonic [mailto:xed@...]
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:47 AM
> To: metatuning@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [metatuning] The refugee from the thuggish fringe of academia
> falls silent
>
>
> After having taken a world-class drubbing from a schmuck
> from nowhere, the Julliard instructor Dante Rosati
> now slinks away, tail between his legs, having soiled
> himself with fear and rage, and whimpering like a
> little boy bitten by the puppy he tried to set on fire.
>
> After initially deciding it would be a clever debating
> tactic to use infantile name-calling and outright lies,
> Dante Rosati got an education about the importance of
> telling the truth in public. Interesting, that. Isn't
> Dante supposed to be the instructor? But Dante Rosati has
> not only been shown to be morally bankrupt -- as we
> have seen, Dante Rosati has proven himself intellectually
> bankrupt as well.
>
> Can we not expect something better than Dante Rosati
> from Julliard?
>
> What's the problem? Don't the people at Julliard have
> money to hire peole who actually know something about
> music history, or about music theory?
>
> The world is full of yutzes who can twang the guitar.
> Elaine Walker, a superbly talented microtonalist on
> the East Coast, has told me "You cannot possibly believe
> how many people there are in Boston playing the guitar."
>
> Surely talented guitarists must be a dime a dozen. Cannot
> Julliard find one who is not addicted to telling lies and
> indulging in hysterical name-calling in public?
>
> Cannot Julliard manage to find an instructor with at least
> some moiety of knowledge of music history, or at least
> a modicum of basic awareness of music theory from the
> 18th century to the present?
>
> I know it's too much to ask to require an instructor
> at Julliard to actually have heard of any of the result
> of psychoacoustics for the last 130 years -- after all,
> the typical music professor lags far behind the times,
> and thinks of Helmholtz's 1865 theory as being "cutting
> edge" and "daring."
>
> But I'm not asking for miracles here. Any schlemiel can
> twang a guitar. Why not demand a little scholarship
> along with the twanging?
> ---------
> --mclaren
>
>
>
>
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