Re: On transience, sad beauty, and The Western Tradition

[Brian Good <bsgood@adelphia.net>]

Dennis Moser wrote:

> It was at this same time and place that I discovered Percy Granger and 
> his "Lincolnshore Posy" (geez, what a whack job! Grainger is one of 
> those ones, whose music you can love, but really don't care to know too 
> much about his personal life ... ). He predates Cage in the use of 
> "chance" in his compositions and his use of arhythmia ("Rufford Park 
> Poachers (Poaching Song)") is absolutely daunting.

My aging memory may be failing, but I think there's a place in the first
clarinet part in "Lincolnshire" where the last thing you see before a
page turn is "As loud as possible," and the first thing on the next page
is "Louder."

Brian