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Animavore wrote:Which begs the question; can non-synaesthesiacs ever play his music correctly?
Shrunk wrote:Animavore wrote:Which begs the question; can non-synaesthesiacs ever play his music correctly?
http://evolvingthoughts.net/2014/05/beg ... -question/
(OTOH, I'm not entirely certain that the sin this self-professed linguistic "purist" commits in the first sentence is meant ironically.)
orpheus wrote:I've always found his ideas much more interesting than his actual music. But that's not to denigrate his importance; those ideas were and are tremendously influential.
Here's to a thoughtful and funny troublemaker who came along at just the right time, to provoke in just the right way.
Apropos the occasion, I visited the Whitney Museum of American Art a few days ago, and snapped a pic of this. I don't know the title, but it's by our birthday boy:
SafeAsMilk wrote:Finally, FINALLY (been trying forever) making some headway with Beethoven via his sonatas. Many are still meh, but some are incredible. I never really got the hullabaloo about Beethoven. His symphonies just never did much for me, I know they're not really bland but they somehow feel that way to me. There's incredible moments, but they seem few and far between.
Shrunk wrote:Animavore wrote:Which begs the question; can non-synaesthesiacs ever play his music correctly?
http://evolvingthoughts.net/2014/05/beg ... -question/
(OTOH, I'm not entirely certain that the sin this self-professed linguistic "purist" commits in the first sentence is meant ironically.)
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