Posts by Christopher Nimmo
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Worst. Idea. Ever.
It's just too easy. I'm picking the sign will read "WI LLYWOOD" within a week.
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If they'd just finish on time next time that would be cool. Silly Phoenix making my train twenty minutes late.
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So according to the Dominion Post's hilariously contrasting editorials this morning, the Concert Programme is a Terrible Thing because it is all about a niche market, but putting Mahler 8 on a big screen* so you don't have to pay through the nose is a Wonderful Thing. Guess what, DomPost, the Concert Programme does this whole democratisation of the arts thing all year round.
*sound from the Concert Programme, of course, and yup, Hilary, I was thinking exactly the same thing
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Perhaps the private sector could step in to run a radio station, but would they fund performances and recordings?
Well, possibly, I suppose. It's actually pretty easy for a business to get their name onto the Concert Programme as it stands - they just have to do something productive in the process. Most CD releases by New Zealand composers are sponsored by a variety of trusts as well as CNZ - I reckon I'd go with the bank who ran this in NZ. NZSO concerts are business-sponsored. So probably the 'big things' would get done, but of course Concert does a whole lot more. Why would a commercially run radio station record, say, the NZSM Composition Competition? Or the NZ Harp Festival?
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I dare say I can say I can spit out fifty golden sovereigns an hour, but that doesn't mean I actually can. And given the empirical evidence against that notion, you'd be a damn fool to take me up on that, no matter what I said. Likewise the business driven fella; odds-on he's talking bullshit.
This might not be particularly related, but it just struck me that the financial crisis might have been averted if everybody had payed more attention to Rumpelstiltskin as children. It's all so simple! Little men who can turn worthless stuff into gold are out to steal our children!
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short answer and quick fix = cut staff
That's definitely short and quick, but not an answer, nor a fix.
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Ben, this is why the music of Bach, Handel, Telemann, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bach and the rest of the great 'classical' composers is still with us, hundreds of years later, and the music of so many others is not. Their music and their developments are a key part of so much of our music and culture today, and to eliminate access to them would hamstring future musical and cultural development.
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Russell, I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
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Every child is born with very few memories, if any, but most of us think of that as the best time of our lives, and the other end of life, chewing endlessly over memories is usually considered a bitter time.
But if children were unable to learn from the experiences of others, and from their own previous experiences, they would die very quickly indeed.
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There weren't, if any, women, blacks, hispanics and certainly no Kiwi's in its probably first 500 years.
Soooooo clearly the people who assembled this list were just making it up?
I'd particularly like to draw your attention to the name of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), with whom many timelines of Western 'classical' music commence. Sure, this list is much, much thinner - until the twentieth century - than a list of male composers would be, but a list of, say, female artists would be just as unbalanced.