KKK Award of Excellence
Jove Super-User Account (mik0001@jove.acs.unt.edu)
9 May 1995 02:24:56 GMT
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====== KKK AWARD OF EXCELLENCE ======
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in Masturbating in White Supremacy
goes to
the thread "Best American Composer"
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<< soc.culture.usa, >>
<< sci.psychology, >>
<< sci.anthropology >>
authored by:
David Fumento (dfumento@woodlawn.uchicago.edu)
at University of Chicago
Gerald (gmcdouga@arn.net)
at ARNet, Inc.
D.C. Irving (dci1@ix.netcom.com)
at Netcom
Rafiki (mdunn@blue.seas.upenn.edu)
at University of Pennsylvania, and
J.R. Stoner (asgard@netcom.com)
at Netcom (Heironamous Botch's Murk Works)
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In article <D81EnA.IC6@midway.uchicago.edu>
David Fumento (dfumento@woodlawn.uchicago.edu)
at University of Chicago wrote:
Subject: Best American Composer.
>
> Berlin? Who lived to be about 100 (I'm dreaming of a White Christmas...)
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In article <3oja52$p86@services.arn.net>
Gerald (gmcdouga@arn.net)
at ARNet, Inc. wrote:
Subject: Best American Composer.
> Berlin?
> Possibly, but what about George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers,
> Loenard Bernstein (West Side Story).
>
> Then there's Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancini, Jules Stein, Meredith Wilson
> (Music Man), And on and on and on.
>
> Unfortunately all are now dead or retired so what we get is John Cage
> without the talent - only the cacophany,
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In article <3oka62$fef@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
D.C. Irving (dci1@ix.netcom.com)
at Netcom wrote:
Subject: Best American Composer.
> And what made them the best, along with the many that weren't named in
> this post, was the person who enterpreted and produced/performed the
> music.
>
> Do you know, on the light side of an important issue, there are
> performers who absolutely ruined every song they sang and/or played.
> Nat King Cole ruined 'em for me every time. When I'd try to sing his
> songs to my wife, she'd coo, "Baby, just let the man do the singin'."
> DCI
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In article <3ole00$jn6@netnews.upenn.edu>
Rafiki (mdunn@blue.seas.upenn.edu)
at University of Pennsylvania wrote:
Subject: Best American Composer.
> Well, even if he wasn't the best (I think he was....), he was
> without a doubt the busiest. Irving Berlin (1888-1989) composed over
> 1500 songs in his lifetime. He once said something to the effect of
> "There are really only four songs in the world. The rest are just
> variations." Neat guy.
>
> About performers ruining composers music..... He absolutely
> refused to let any performer taking any artistic license with his work.
> He came up with it, he composed it, he knew how it should sound, and
> noone else could refute his point of view.
>
> --
> --
> afraid he just shoved his foot even further down his throat....
> Matt Dunn
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In article <asgardD85CIE.D3I@netcom.com>
J.R. Stoner (asgard@netcom.com)
at Heironamous Botch's Murk Works wrote:
Subject: Best American Composer.
> My single (apropriate) entry: Aaron Copland
> --
> .J.R. Stoner, Ferroequinologist - asgard@tfs.com - asgard@netcom.com
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