Me
Composer Bastard has me linked as;
"Doug Palmer: Seattle's last hope for musical spirit".
Someone who understands!
I'd use the word "attitude" i.e. "Composer with attitude"
We make the stuff!
Why should the money go to architects, lawyers, consultants, uninspired and uninspiring conductors, and other social flotsam?
Who needs some fantastic half-filled concert hall when small venues provide better variety, art, and better audience experience?
There is a great line in the movie "Putney Swope";
"The thing to do is not to rock the boat, the thing to do is to sink the boat"
When you consider that the only truly fresh and provocative music of the 20th century
was created by guys in a garage with electric guitars, maybe it's time to abandon cademia altogether, forget gigantic publishing companies, and ossified "classical"
thinking.
Forget music that was.
Music is life, don't watch someone else's, live your own!
And.......well it's something to think about isn't it?
"Doug Palmer: Seattle's last hope for musical spirit".
Someone who understands!
I'd use the word "attitude" i.e. "Composer with attitude"
We make the stuff!
Why should the money go to architects, lawyers, consultants, uninspired and uninspiring conductors, and other social flotsam?
Who needs some fantastic half-filled concert hall when small venues provide better variety, art, and better audience experience?
There is a great line in the movie "Putney Swope";
"The thing to do is not to rock the boat, the thing to do is to sink the boat"
When you consider that the only truly fresh and provocative music of the 20th century
was created by guys in a garage with electric guitars, maybe it's time to abandon cademia altogether, forget gigantic publishing companies, and ossified "classical"
thinking.
Forget music that was.
Music is life, don't watch someone else's, live your own!
And.......well it's something to think about isn't it?
Labels: Oh shut up
posted by Lane Savant at 11:14 AM
3 Comments:
My goodness, COMPOSER BASTARD's blog site is VERY technically oriented; not much of a place for innane chit chat. Sounds and looks like he has given you some good advice about using your software, and some music theory.
I love your new moniker, "Doug Palmer: Seattle's last hope for musical spirit." It certainly has a nicer ring to it than the old Palmer Automotive: The Duke of Oil. You are deficient in many things as a carbon unit, but yes, attitude is not one of them. It is a joy to witness your transformation from less confidence to more confidence, to brazon type-A behavior.
Let Alex be your guide, for you too can, and hopefully will, make bucks with your compositions. As a retired person, this may not be much more than ego fulfillment, but still it would be cool. I only half kid around when I pine for the first PALMER CD. It's coming, and probably before the second coming of Hasuz Kristus.
To add to your terrific quote from PUTNEY SWOPE, Zero Mostel in Mel Brooks' first stab at THE PRODUCERS (1968), said simply, "If you got it, flaunt it!" Good old philosopher Max Bialystock. You know most people do not even remember Robert Downey Sr.'s film PUTNEY SWOPE (1969), let alone throw out a quote from it. I am impressed, sir. A film directed and written by a white man about a black executive and black power. Now that was a dark comedy.
Your closing paragraph was very impressive there, pard:
SINK THE BOAT
When you consider
that the only truly
fresh and provocative music
of the 20th century
was created by guys
in a garage
with electric guitars,
maybe it is time
to abandon academia
altogether;
forget gigantic
publishing companies
and ossified
“classical”
thinking.
Forget music
that was.
Music
is life.
Don’t watch
someone else’s—
live
your own!
Doug Palmer February 2008
Glenn
Hallo, Lane!
Your comment about "half-filled large halls" is VERY well taken!
I only have to reflect on the "contem,porary music" concert I attended Tuesday evening at the UW; it was in Meany, not the Breckenridge Hall in the Music building. So, Meany was 95% EMPTY while the same-sized audience would have almost filled the Breckenridge! Discouraging to the artists (all grad students at the UW), but expected; after all, they are "only" students, not "names", and the music (expcept for a Debussy work) were all "contemporary", never a heavy "draw"!
Angry at the stupid insensivity of the UW program planners
-- Anonomann
Yo ho, ho, ho, y'all:
Re: "... sink the boat": see Capt. Balstrode's advice to Peter Grimes in "Peter Grimes".
Tschuess,
Anonomann
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