Re: John Cage recordings

["Trevor Hartsell" <pravda@introvert.org>]

I know this is unrelated, but wow, could you do me a favor and email me a
copy of that clinton sample sometime?

That is, if you still have it.

Thanks!
Trevor
<http://www.introvert.org/>

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Nelson <tcn62@ici.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: John Cage recordings


> Ah, equivocation. As Bill Clinton said (and which I of course sampled and
> looped!) "It all depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." Or in
> this case the word 'Classical'... To the Music Theorist, 'Classical' has 
>a
> rather narrow definition associated with (roughly) the late eighteenth 
>and
> early nineteenth centuries; to them Cage is definitely not "Classical",
but
> rather a "Twentieth-Century Composer" or something like that. But to the
> unit-shifting demographic-minded folks who SELL recorded music,
"Classical"
> is the stuff in those bins over there... NOT jazz, NOT pop, NOT country,
> NOT (you get the point); it's defined by what it ISN'T... To them, it's
ALL
> the stuff that gets written about in those Grove and Norton textbooks. A
> broad generalization to be sure, but not too far from the truth.
>
> At 09:33 AM 6/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >After thinking about this a great deal (do I have too much time or 
>what?)
I
> >conclude it all depends on what you mean by classical music.
>
>
>