article on bullshit

It's rare to find a contemporary article on philosophy, much less in
a "mainstream" weekly publication.

What's the necessary mix? The topic: bullshit.

And the New Yorker did a fine job of it all in the most recent issue.

J. Pehrson

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:
> And the New Yorker did a fine job of it all in the most recent issue.

Yeah, but did you check out the article on Franz Schreker? I knew
nothing of him until I played a Chamber Symphony of his a couple
months ago at the Mainly Mozart festival. A really lovely and amazing
piece, I found no recordings of it, but now I want to check out the
operas. It is really an intriguing mix of styles and influences from
the early part of the century (the last one) and I hope more light is
shed on this guy's music.

Cheers,
Jon

i am confused, what was the first post in this thread?
it seems like i never got it.

I take the implication from Jon's post below that there is also the opposite, that which is unrecognized.
Jehan Alain is still a greatly unrecognized composer

Jon Szanto wrote:

>--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:
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>>And the New Yorker did a fine job of it all in the most recent issue.
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>Yeah, but did you check out the article on Franz Schreker? I knew
>nothing of him until I played a Chamber Symphony of his a couple
>months ago at the Mainly Mozart festival. A really lovely and amazing
>piece, I found no recordings of it, but now I want to check out the
>operas. It is really an intriguing mix of styles and influences from
>the early part of the century (the last one) and I hope more light is
>shed on this guy's music.
>
>Cheers,
>Jon
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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:
> i am confused, what was the first post in this thread?
> it seems like i never got it.

Joe posted a short note about an article in the New Yorker, an issue
that just came in the mail to me a couple days ago, about the various
forms of "bullshit". But the online issue is already a new one, so
there isn't any point to linking to the article, which isn't online.

Then *I* mentioned another article in the same issue on a composer who
had been unknown to me until earlier this year.

> I take the implication from Jon's post below that there is also the
> opposite, that which is unrecognized.
> Jehan Alain is still a greatly unrecognized composer

Well, my comments weren't really about Joe's article, just another
article in the same issue.

Hope that cleared up the confusion. If you want to be confused again,
go listen to some SGM! :)

Cheers,
Jon

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@c...> wrote:
> --- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...>
wrote:
> > And the New Yorker did a fine job of it all in the most recent
issue.
>
> Yeah, but did you check out the article on Franz Schreker? I knew
> nothing of him until I played a Chamber Symphony of his a couple
> months ago at the Mainly Mozart festival. A really lovely and
amazing
> piece, I found no recordings of it, but now I want to check out the
> operas. It is really an intriguing mix of styles and influences from
> the early part of the century (the last one) and I hope more light
is
> shed on this guy's music.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon

One fairly prominent mention of Schreker is in
Schoenberg's _Harmonielehre_. Schoenberg used a
short excerpt from a Schreker piece to illustrate
a harmonic progression that is what Schoenberg
didn't want to call "atonal".

-monz

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@c...> wrote:
> --- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...>
wrote:
> > And the New Yorker did a fine job of it all in the most recent
issue.
>
> Yeah, but did you check out the article on Franz Schreker? I knew
> nothing of him until I played a Chamber Symphony of his a couple
> months ago at the Mainly Mozart festival. A really lovely and
amazing
> piece, I found no recordings of it, but now I want to check out the
> operas. It is really an intriguing mix of styles and influences from
> the early part of the century (the last one) and I hope more light
is
> shed on this guy's music.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon

***Hi Jon,

Yes, I read that article, but since I hadn't heard the music as yet,
it didn't register as much. I'm sure there's lots of
wonderful "lost" music out there... and probably many of the "best"
composers have always just been the "best" promoters... dunno.

JP