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Swingle singers sing Ben Johnston?

🔗PAULE <ACADIAN/ACADIAN/PAULE%Acadian@...>

10/7/1996 9:05:54 AM
I just read an interview with Ben Johnston on the 'net, I think I got there
from the Just Intonation Network homepage. Anyway, a Swingle Singers
recording of Ben Johnston's music was mentioned. Apparantly Ben approved of
their intonation. Anyone know how I can get a hold of a copy of this? I was
brainwashed as a kid into loving the Swingle Singers. Speaking of them, and
off the subject of tuning, who did the first jazzy interpretations of Bach?
The Modern Jazz Quartet? Jazzy Bach was a trick that every prog-rock band
had know, listen to Jethro Tull, Yes, etc., but only Focus took it a step
further and wrote their own jazzy neo-Baroque suites. Score one more for the
Dutch for musical creativity!


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