Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[Maciek]

And that's an exciting spelling of exclamation in the last post.

Don't you mean xciting?

(I won't change mine ither... )

[Maciek]

No, that was seriously a typo!

REALLY!

[Guido]

I like littering Luke's thread with irrelevancies until the next puff of interesting stuff comes from Luke himself. Am listening to the first piano concerto of Shostakovch (not by conscious choice - its after the Second Cello Concerto on my itunes!) and I had forgotten how good it was! Also I love goldschmidt! I do have concerns about the soloist being heard in the cello concerto, which makes me hesitate to audition with it for concerto competitions (especially as there are so many other pieces I want to play - Shostakovich 2nd, Englund, Fini, Walton, Bernstein, Bartok, Barber, Hindemith, Martin, Albert, Bliss and others among them!). I am also listening to Andre Previn's music too much. Too much...

and the thread returns to chilling silence once more, as one of its illuminaries thinks up a witty response to the ramblings of this dangerous and troubled  fanatic.

[Guido]

Quite intriguing double spacing of that last word. Nice.

Anyhoo, I forgive you for any offence you may have caused me, be it unintentional or not. Like Jebus himself I am, in his resplendent majesty and perfect knowledge (but not so much knowledge that free will becomes impossible. Obviously).

Seriously - I will type out a response to your 'religion' email response, but I'm still angry at deleting my last attempt!

[Maciek]

Actually, I just wanted to say I like Shosty's 1st PC too. More than his 2nd PC, though I like that one as well.

And I still haven't finished with one thing:

Hey wait a minute! What are you saying about my previous posts?!!

I thought you would just go on repeating that same post for a while. Answering

Yeah!... yeah..

to everything.

[Maciek]

This thread is getting a little strange, BTW.

And Luke has little (if anything) to do with it.

[lukeottevanger]

What are you on about, Guido? Have you been imbibing?

Personally, my mind is full of higher thoughts. I'm pondering the formal implications of the tonal ambiguities implicit in my modal technique, as I have been for the last three or four days. Fruitful stuff. But not for launching into discussion at 1:20 in the morning perhaps.

Have another drink, instead.

[Guido]

I was just trying to stimulate some more responses by saying some slightly off puttingly odd things. Unfortunately I'm not even remotely drunk. I cannot wait for Suicide Sunday.

Hmm Up until a few minutes I thought I liked the second piano concerto more - the slow movement! but Now I'm not so sure. Thankfully I don't need to choose!

I thought you would just go on repeating that same post for a while. Answering

Yeah!... yeah..

to everything.

That's such a good idea. I will definitely do that more often from now on!

(Also possibly typos may have made my posts a little more bizarre than they should have been...)

[lukeottevanger]

Hmm Up until a few minutes I thought I liked the second piano concerto more - the slow movement!

...blatant Beethoven PC5 rip-off... Think about it, the evidence is all there...

[Guido]

Yeah!... yeah..

[Maciek]

But then think of all the ripoffs in the 1st PC!

The competition is tough here...

[Guido]

When the music's as good as it is, and the model is as good as it is I don't really care! Brahm's violin concerto is ridiculously similar to Beethoven's. Ridiculously.

The 2nd Shostakovich PC was written for an audition for his son was it not?

[Maciek]

Just keeping the spirit of the thread alive:

Wow! I just noticed I'm a "VETERAN MEMBER"!

Wow! Wow!

Do I get a present or something?

[Guido]

I presumed that Veteran member meant that you only had less than the full compliment of limbs and/or digits from dedication to posting new responses. Have you in fact worked down your fingers into stumps?

And very nice use of Wow! Wow!

I think that, like 'musing tuffet', this particular affectation is a keeper.

I must stop saying maudlin, mawkish and schmaltzy. Although I am fascinated by this attribute in alot of music, and would like to explore it. I've thought about starting a thread about it, but I don't really have enough to say about it to justify doing that. All I can say is that I think its very interesting and don't think its necessarily a bad thing, despite the negative connotations of the words.

[Maciek]

schmaltzy

That's a nice one. I've got to start using it.

[Guido]

I wouldn't know - I've almost lost my sight peering at the screen. And I don't feel touch anymore either (from the typing)...

haha

Schmaltz is a good word, as is Schlock (see my recent post). I think that the slow movement of the second piano concerto could justifiably be called Maudlin or Mawkish, but I would contend in a good way. Hmm...

Now listening to the Piano Quintet. Must go to sleep and contemplate... Sleep and contemplate..

[karlhenning]

Personally, my mind is full of higher thoughts.

Count on Luke to elevate the discourse, I always say! 

[lukeottevanger]

Count on Luke to elevate the discourse, I always say! 

In alt Karl, sempre in alt....

[greg]

is it okay if i post a few hundred posts about nothing real quick to become a veteran member, too?

[karlhenning]

No, we want content, Greg -- and especially on Luke's thread!

Although Luke does host the occasional flame-war for purposes of publicity, in which endeavor I support him unreservedly