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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
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Teehee.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...itunes_handel_4
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Handel Masterpiece Gets 'Explicit' Label
Fri Sep 19,12:48 PM ET
By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer
SAN JOSE, Calif. - George Frideric Handel has at least one thing in common with Eminem (news - web sites) and other modern artists: his music was slapped with an "explicit" warning at Apple Computer Inc.'s online iTunes Music Store.
The baroque composer's 1742 masterpiece, "The Messiah," was marked with the red warning that indicates the content might not be appropriate for young children or others with sensitive tastes. It's on a recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Alldis.
The warning, which appeared when the album's tracks were made available Tuesday but disappeared late Tuesday, was most likely a technical mix-up, though "The Messiah" does touch on love, violence and death — in a more profound way than, say, most music produced 260 years later.
"Obviously, there's been some sort of error," said Lara Vacante, an Apple spokeswoman. She said technicians were looking into why it was mislabeled. Other juicy classics, like Giacomo Puccini's murder-and-suicide opera "Tosca," don't carry the advisory.
The online music store, which is now available only to owners of Macintosh (news - web sites) computers, has been criticized in some circles for focusing more on pop music than classical or operatic fare. It's often difficult, also, to find out who is conducting a piece or the names of soloists.
Apple recently introduced a friendlier classical home page that breaks down albums by periods such as early music, baroque, romantic and modern. It also has a category for opera.
Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold more than 10 million songs at 99 cents each since its April 28 launch, and is central to Apple's strategy to promote its computers as digital entertainment hubs. |
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Don't keep a loaded compound bow handy.
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10069
Nov 2002
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Or Mississippi. Long live General Lee!
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Dr Strangelove
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Originally posted by ICBM
If you want to see lots of Confederate bumper stickers and Confederate flags, go to West Virginia. Apparently the people there are too stupid to realize that West Virginia left the confederacy to join the Union... |
This is weird, but I used to see a lot of confederate battle flag stickers on buses and taxis in Grenada during Maurice Bishop's socialist regime. Evidently the folks just figured the symbol had something to do with rebellion without considering that it represented a rebellion of slaveowners. Probably better than 90% of the population of Grenada are descended from slves brought there to work on plantations.
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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
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Originally posted by BeBro
Is that true? I like Haendel - from which composers did he steal? |
Alas, 'tis true:
"If ever there was a truly great and original genius in any art, Handel was that genius in music; and yet, what may seem no slight paradox, there never was a greater plagiary. He seized without scruple or concealment, whatever suited his purpose. But as those sweets which the bee steals from a thousand flowers, by passing throught its little laboratory, are converted into a substance peculiar to itself, and which no other art can effect, --- so, whatever Handel stole, by passing through the powerful laboratory of his mind, and mixing with his ideas, became as much his own as if he had been the inventor. Like the bee, too, by his manner of working, he often gave to what was unnoticed to its original situation, something of high and exquisite flavour: To Handel might well be applied, what Boileau, with more truth than modesty, says of himself -- Et même en imitant toujours originel."
-- Source: Uvedale Price, "Essays on Decorations," in Essays on the Picturesque as compared with the Sublime and the Beautiful, Hereford 1798, II, 196.
He borrowed from Bononcini, who was his greatest rival at the time. Handel was rather unabashed about it, remarking, "It's much too good for him; he did not know what to do with it."
Those from whom he borrowed are now pretty obscure. He didn't steal from those contemporaries with whom he was either friends (Telemann, Gluck), or whom he revered (Bach).
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