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> From: Stephen Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: October 30, 2006 5:39:33 PM EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Trad V Classical ? > > Nope...just that the scoring was not balanced if it was his > intention to allow the pipes to come through. > > and I dont think it is excessively modernist, its about as "light" > as a modernist piece could be..but still in that genre. > > Steve Douglass > On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Steve's 'say a string quartet plus Ms Tickell with a >> more traditional scoring,...' >> and Max's KT + string quartet plus double bass, >> with the smallpipes mostly alternating as soloist >> with a cor anglais, are not that different. >> >> A myth seems to be going around that the smallpipes >> were pitted against a huge symphony orchestra. >> >> Also how can one person regard the piece as just a couple of >> notches above >> Disney, while someone else thinks it's excessively modernist? >> Were they not listening to the same piece, or just not listening? >> >> John >> >> >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > --
