[LAU] OT: Pierrot Lunaire (was: Re: Exam Cheating investigation)

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Sun Jan 19 20:15:03 UTC 2014


On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 13:08 -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 12:17 -0500, Marc Lavallée wrote:
> >> I'm 50
> >
> > and I'm 47. This is the point. When we were young and turned on the
> > radio at night they played Arnold Schönberg, Bill Laswell, ..., Vienna
> > Art Orchestra. Today they play Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas, this
> > crap has nothing in common with music. The kids don't know music,
> > because people of your and my age make the play lists for the radio.
> 
> Huh?
> 
> Maybe they played Schoenberg where you live ... but I never heard of
> this kind of stuff until much later in my life when I did some serious
> musical studies. Maybe not serious enough ... I think that Schoenberg
> and other of that ilk are no better than the rap you mentioned earlier
> and are really just examples of folks showing how smart they (thing)
> they are.
> 
> But, when I was growing up the radio featured the Everly Bros, Beatles, etc.

The WDR, a German radio station, had a program called "Open House", when
I was around 14 years old they played all kinds of "less popular" music,
not at prime time, but during the night and the early morning. Btw. I
was and I'm still a fan of the Beatles :) and I love old school hip hop.



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