[AccessD] Q&Q

I think that I'm going back to Ludy's Piano Sonatas this afternoon. Sure
beats TV! Three major hits. Well actually I got sidetracked momentarily by
Opera. I'm at this moment listening to Luciano Pavarotti and I understand
that young girls your age don't get it, and that's ok, I get it, and it's
lonely out here but I can deal with it. Despite popular tastes, opera and
string quartets live! Beyond their 200-year time-spans. Yes I love various
groups such as Stones and Talking Heads and Clash, but taking the Long
Picture, how many of their tunes are going to be played in 100 years?
That's the basic definition of classic music, like it or not.

One cannot predict the future, one can only guess. That admitted, here are
some of my guesses, of music that will be played in 2013.

1. M2O: Miss America. That record will live on and on and on and on.
2. The Beatles: The White Album. That's the best record they ever did.
3. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue. With his transcription of "Concierto de
Aranjuez" he got all the love and sorrow all perfectly right.
4. Uakti: Mapa and several subsequent CDs. This trio from Brazil is
probably my favourite world-music group.
5, Swapan Chauduri, IMO the best tabla player that I have ever heard. In
the company of G.S. Sachdev, this is music to die for.


On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Audra Gonsalves
<audragonsalves at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  Hey you - this dumb ass laptop that I am using keeps going down- guess
> it's because his horney nephew used it all night - so going to give it a
> break to cool down and then come back to your emails!
>
> miss and love you - so so miss you me
>
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> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 11:42:39 -0400
> Subject: Q&Q
> From: fuller.artful at gmail.com
> To: audragonsalves at hotmail.com
>
>
> Almost time for Quirks and Quarks. I'm assuming that you at least have the
> freedom to listen to cbc. Starts at 12pm and after that comes The Debaters!
> So if possible, get near a radio and tune in to 99.1 FM. Bob McDonald has
> some cool stuff this week, and the Debaters ditto.
>
> Used to be an expression, "I'm glued to the tube." In my case, and I'm not
> alone in this, I'm glued to the radio. Weekends are the worst part of cbc
> radio (I hate blues music and I'm way too tired of Randy Bachman's rock
> music choices). Truth be told, I could live what remains of my life without
> ever hearing another blues or R&R tune. At this point, I'm solely
> interested in music that lasts, and that includes East Indian classical
> music (remember when we went to see and speak with G.S. Sachdev and Swapan
> Chaudhuri. and previous to that, Zakir Hussain?)
>
> Lately I'm on a re-acquaintance with the music of Ludwig van Beethoven.
> It's so wonderful to hear him again. I have ignored him for decades, but
> lately acquired and copied about a dozen CDs containing his magnificent
> works.
>