Military Microtonality!

I have no idea what either side was talking about in the recent spat, but a strange synchronicity happened when someone mentioned "military" something and this appeared in my inbox:

>What happens when members of the Boston avant-garde join forces
with the
>U.S. Marines?!??
>
>Is this a match made in heaven or hell?!
>
>Find out this Wednesday (1/23) at MIT's Killian Hall at 8 PM, when:
>
>The Saxophone Quartet of the "President's Own" U.S. Marine Band
plays music
>the President would never approve of!
>including....
>
>The Boston Premiere of "Quartet for Saxophones" by Curtis Hughes.
>
>(This composition,inspired by the likes of the World Saxophone Quartet
and
>ROVA, includes a microtonal tribute to the wizardry of Mr. Joseph
Gabriel
>Esther Maneri, and attempts to make a new kind of fusion between
>pre-composed and improvised musicmaking...)
>
>Also on the program:
> Music by Duke Ellington, Lior Navok, and more, including insane
>arrangements of bluegrass standards...
>
>Among the members of the quartet, some of you may remember one Greg
>Ridlington from his appearances in years past with "Dead Cat Bounce"
Come
>say hello and welcome Greg back home from DC...
>
>This concert is FREE!

>P.S. The sax piece mentioned below is total insanity - I've seen
>the score; but the marines do a remarkable job with it - definitely
>worth hearing.

Paul,

Concert sounds like a happening! Any chance you can go and tell us
what it was like???

Also:
--- In tuning@y..., paul@s... wrote:
> I have no idea what either side was talking about in the recent spat

I/we never heard back from you - could you shed any light on message
#32963, which was apparantly from you but was simply a subject line?

Cheers,
Jon (who hopes you're getting some sleep...)

--- In tuning@y..., "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@A...> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Concert sounds like a happening! Any chance you can go and tell us
> what it was like???

I will try!!!!
>
> Also:
> --- In tuning@y..., paul@s... wrote:
> > I have no idea what either side was talking about in the recent
spat
>
> I/we never heard back from you - could you shed any light on
message
> #32963, which was apparantly from you but was simply a subject line?

Just something I've always believed very strongly. For example, I
recently posted something to J Gill about how the record industry,
after seemingly fostering creativity to some extent, seems to have
become (once again, perhaps) a greedy commercial money machine
starting around 1974 or so . . .

> Just something I've always believed very strongly. For example, I
> recently posted something to J Gill about how the record industry,
> after seemingly fostering creativity to some extent, seems to have
> become (once again, perhaps) a greedy commercial money machine
> starting around 1974 or so . . .

It's always been that way.

* David Beardsley
* http://biink.com
* http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley

--- In tuning@y..., "paulerlich" <paul@s...> wrote:
> Just something I've always believed very strongly. For example, I
> recently posted something to J Gill about how the record industry,
> after seemingly fostering creativity to some extent, seems to have
> become (once again, perhaps) a greedy commercial money machine
> starting around 1974 or so . . .

Yup on that. I suppose the weird thing about the post is that there
was no body content, so everyone was simply *guessing* about what you
intended to say! Yahoo is acting *really* weird, so maybe it munged
your post, but all we got was a subject, shouting in all caps, that
covered so many (military?) bases...

Cheers,
Jon

--- In tuning@y..., "jonszanto" <JSZANTO@A...> wrote:

> Yahoo is acting *really* weird, so maybe it munged
> your post

No, I guess I was acting weird. The subject line said it all. Just a
Martin Luther King day message to the world . . .

>>Just something I've always believed very strongly. For
>>example, I recently posted something to J Gill about how
>>the record industry, after seemingly fostering creativity to
>>some extent, seems to have become (once again,
>>perhaps) a greedy commercial money machine starting
>>around 1974 or so . . .
>
>It's always been that way.

Probably, but there does seem to be a non-smooth change
for the worse somewhere around '74-75. The idea of the
producer as the artist, and the "artists" only performers,
though by no means a new idea, became the norm by the
early 1980's, and from 75-80 the Disco thing took a step
towards manufactured music, which continues today with
groove.

-Carl