On May 3, 2007, at 7:00 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
the the old joke that Richard Hofmann at Oberlin used to tell, poking fun at "concept music" -- he always said he had a concept piece, for children's chorus and child molester.
The problem is, you can't poke fun at something that is always ready to out-outrageous any joke.
Dick Higgins (primarily a poet) has a piece called "Danger Music," (it was published in _Source_) one movement of which consists solely of the instruction: "Crawl into the vagina of a living whale!" (exclamation point sic)
Beat that! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
