Posts by giovanni tiso
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Much as I love Nina Simone I'm still lost as to why New Zealand taxpayers should fund a radio station to play music that she may have liked for years after her death. We live in different worlds.
Years after her death? Yes, that would be seven years this coming April. Meanwhile, she was a church organist growing up, so the music she played was already centuries old, yet she seemed to think it was formative for a modern performer and composer all right.
Really the ignorance you are displaying in this thread is quite staggering.
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Whatever i owe it, i've paid back in spades but why should i keep paying for something i dont use or like ? If you like it and use it then you pay for it
Don Brash would be so proud! And to think I'm not allowed to use the word "neoliberal".
As Giovanni says, Nina Simone said it so well:
Christ that's such a beautiful piece. Too bad it's ruined by the eurocentric piano.
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Does Nina Simone get much air time on ConcertFM?
That's not so much the point. The point is that the music that she loved and helped form her does.
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Ideas of notation, melody, harmony, rhythm and so on have been developed over centuries. We could not be where we are today without what had happened before us. You may not like the music played on Concert, but you owe it an awful lot.
Yes, and again Nina Simone said it so well, I just don't have the reference for that. And when she auditioned for the Curtis school she was turned down on account of the fact that she didn't look like a classical pianist - both in that she was a woman and in that she was black. To me having a non-commercial, cheaply run classical radio station available up and down the country means also enabling a key part of our musical tradition to retain a popular audience, so that people who look like Nina Simone and come from her sort of background can be exposed to it. Closing the station would help fulfill the fantasy that many people have here that it is in fact a genre for white rich folk.
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just dont forget to take your ass i handed back to you in shreds.
You were a step up from Danyl, but don't flatter yourself mate.
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so why should my one dollar subsidise your altruistic fetish
Bye.
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Want me to post you some 'free' links you can program and listen to in your own time ?
No. Because even your version of free couldn't possibly be cheaper than one dollar per NZer per year, and because I like that it employs people who have a passion for the less than commercial musical genres and knows how to communicate it.
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So, yeah. It's very good. You should all read it.
And the cover is by Marian Maguire isn't it? Her Herakls series is in Titirangi util April 11 and okay it's not a book but it reads like one so go see it.
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Musically, it's all about dubstep and UKfunky now
Terrific, and of course whenever there's a new kind of music on the scene the thing you've got to do is forget about everything that came before it. What a fucking depressing idea of culture.
Meanwhile, and so long as you don't mind, I'll keep listening to Nina and Wolfgang some of the time. It's nice to know that for the grand price of 1 dollar per New Zealander per year there's a place where I can do that.
That's a truly breathtaking work of diversion Craig
Yes, I thought it was pretty impressive even by Craig's high high standards.
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Last time i checked, Nina simone wasn't hiphop ?
No. She was however an exponent of an indigenous musical form (several, actually) so according to the dominant theme in this here thread ought to have found classical music utterly useless and redundant. But you knew that, so why am I even bothering to tell you?