Re: New Thread: Classical Music Influences on Us

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

Tim Nelson wrote:

> At 06:41 PM 9/24/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >>but have you guys/gals checked out 'Threnody for the Victims of 
>Hiroshima'
> >>by Krzysztof Penderecki?
>
> I usually put a cd on 'repeat all' quietly throughout the night while I
> sleep; Robert Rich, Eno, Steve Roach, shakuhachi, bansuri, etc... One 
>night
> last week I'd been playing Penderecki, and decided to sleep to Threnody. 
>I
> only made it a couple of hours before I woke up and had to shut it off!
> >
> >have you seen the score for it?? absolutely amazing. as is most of
> >pederecki's work (and by the way, its pronounced pen-der-eski, not
> >-ecki).
>
> According to this <http://www.cs.rit.edu/~spr/polish/names.html> it's 
>more
> like  "pen-der-ETski"...
>
> I'd still like to know how to pronounce Varese, though...
>
> -t

i've always pronounced it va-raise (as in raison d'etre) and i've never 
been
corrected by anyone (could be that it's so far off no one has any hope for 
me,
tho...)

lance g. (pronounced jET-ski)