tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post679257443648161958..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Don Giovanni in PrisonBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-30876737523374244552016-03-14T23:43:16.652-05:002016-03-14T23:43:16.652-05:00This post has started attracting some of those ver...This post has started attracting some of those very odd posts referencing Narciso Yepes. Please stop.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-48182385995734916612016-02-23T22:03:38.126-06:002016-02-23T22:03:38.126-06:00I'm reminded of why I abandoned a musicology l...I'm reminded of why I abandoned a musicology list serve: they got obsessed about the pronunciation of the names of Czech composers to such an absurd degree that it became intolerable. But not all of academia's obsessions are so harmless.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-14061160259091078322016-02-23T14:03:15.177-06:002016-02-23T14:03:15.177-06:00(“White Americans Are Nearly as Blind to Their Rac...(“White Americans Are Nearly as Blind to Their Racism as Ever Before”-- headline from the LA Times today, noted by James Taranto under the 'Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead' rubric in today's Best of the Web.)Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-36507138358065743512016-02-23T13:17:44.335-06:002016-02-23T13:17:44.335-06:00I can't resist commenting on Bonnie Gordon'...I can't resist commenting on Bonnie Gordon's "it’s likely that the men in Polzonetti's class didn’t even have the opportunities that were offered in their schools"-- yes, I can; but you're right that many academic and other sorts of people will consider anyone who professes to ignore race to be in fact a racist. Off to the re-training cam... seminar with you! Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-59557364702439168482016-02-23T13:07:32.773-06:002016-02-23T13:07:32.773-06:00The same DGG email that alerted me to the vinyl re...The same DGG email that alerted me to the vinyl release of the Sokolov Shubert/Beethoven CD also mentions a new 5 CD set of Narciso Yepes' live concerto recordings 1969-1979 [http://goo.gl/jrr8Vo].Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.com