TRIN

I just got, as a birthday present, a copy of Alex Ross's "The Rest Is Noise"
Is it just me, or does it seem like there are a lot of Alexes around?
I can't imagine what kind of plot this might signify, but I'll work on it.
Anyway, I'm up to Stravinsky, and not to be dissing the book or anything, so far
I've read biographies of all the composers mentioned.
The book does offer a kind of passacalia bottom for for my previous reading.
Some myths exposed (or maybe not, a lot of 'em could be true).
There is some little controversy as to what Alban Berg might have said to George Gershwin.
Or what Alex (there's that name again) says he did.
Is somebody covering up here?
Or maybe it wasn't Alban Berg at all.
Maybe it was an iceberg.
Iceberg, Albenberg, what's the difference?
All I know is that it wasn't me.
Or as Kryton once said "sometimes you've just got to say 'the laws of causality? Who gives a smeg?'"
I am very sorry that I can't seem to think up anything better than this.

But I can't.

Go see Think Denk, Omniscient Mussel, or Norman Lebrecht if you want something intelligent.
Lot's of stuff about good people (there's mythology for 'ya) and bad music.
Maybe it's the other way 'round.
The crux of the argument seems to be, and I paraphrase here, How could George Gershwin write good music while Southerners were still lynching negros?
Some Northerners too (let's have the courage to see the big picture).

There also seems to be some consternation the possibility of homosexual conduct in the arts sphere. (no offense to Thelonious, please)

I am going to take my box of tissues and my TRIN and go back to bed.