I’m so sorry for your loss. My sympathies to all his family and friends.
He was in good spirits Friday.
He had been battling a long-term illness and perhaps wasn’t as great at taking care of himself as he was others.
I believe he probably first fell unconscious and therefore passed in his sleep peacefully.
He was fortunate to have some very good friends in New Orleans and his final rest will be with family in Brew York state.
I’ll probably do my best to dumpster dive some classics of his. Such a great sense of humor. A good man.
And a very talented musician.
To: Askel5
=======Music formed its major and minor tonality in its meanderings through Europe’s cultural life. The musical revolution also occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century with Arnold Schonberg as its first protagonist, but initially it did not entail a break with every form. Atonalism, however, opens the door to the liquidation of what has been traditionally considered Western music. In the ongoing musical revolution, the leap into a world without norms leads to electronic or industrially produced music, which lacks an essential element of traditional music: namely, the overtones.
I think I know what this fellow means, but he’s certainly not a musician since he does not know what overtones are. If he’s referring to traditional harmony, then he’s right about Schönberg, but not about pop/industrial music, which although can be mindless, rarely “breaks the rules” of traditional harmony.
Jazz does, and quite often. It also happens to be a bona fide art form. It simply “stretches” the rules of harmony, just as Wagner did.
28 posted on 02/02/2003 5:53:12 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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Beauty is now an extinct star.
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