tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post7967196147662448833..comments2024-03-28T15:48:11.151-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-66342824129508605252021-10-13T16:26:02.863-04:002021-10-13T16:26:02.863-04:00Affiliates Program delivered in the social platfor...<br />Affiliates Program delivered in the social platform or outcome synthesis <a href="https://businessleadsworld.com/" rel="nofollow"> MCA Leads Data </a> is effectively viewed as a neglected but worthy upward.Business Leads Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06682586770344781777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-27345185489885788932020-02-05T02:18:01.341-05:002020-02-05T02:18:01.341-05:00I appreciate the effort you made to share the know...I appreciate the effort you made to share the knowledge. This is really great stuff for sharing. We also provide my assignment to help Australia.For more info visit:<br /><a href="https://www.excellentassignmenthelp.com.au/physics-assignment-help" rel="nofollow">Physics Assignment Help</a><br />Assignment Helphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14764667231488131911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-22425887710182114242011-04-15T18:21:41.750-04:002011-04-15T18:21:41.750-04:00BTW-- You can see Dr. Canales in a "freeze mo...BTW-- You can see Dr. Canales in a "freeze mob" at the area mall if you click this link. She is in jeans on one knee reading an art book. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CgDmratqX0&feature=shareMurfmenschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00031877154740991965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-90678100696729942102011-01-02T06:36:43.000-05:002011-01-02T06:36:43.000-05:00Buck, that is just extraordinary! I cannot recall...Buck, that is just extraordinary! I cannot recall when I last saw, let alone owned, a 78 player. Do you remember the short lived and ill fated 45s?<br /><br />Here is a bit of terivia not everyone knows. The CD was invented in Japan [Sony?], and the Chairman of the Board was a fanatic lover of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. He gave the order that the new CD was to have enough memory to hold all of the 9th on one CD. Don't you love it?Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-77401379205498892662011-01-01T20:23:37.145-05:002011-01-01T20:23:37.145-05:00Professor I have about 500 to thousand 78 classica...Professor I have about 500 to thousand 78 classical LP's. I'd be glad to lend you a few if you'd like to listen to a few of them if you'd like, for old times sake and a trip down memory lane. I don't know if you have a 78 rpm player but they are available now (try Rek-O-Kut if want want one of the really good new ones or take a chance on Ebay for good used -if you need help I can help you find a good used one or lend you one of mine as I collect old record players) for brand new ones and the needles don't wear out now, at least it takes a long, long time to wear one out. I have no idea what I have, I haven't sorted through them in some time but I am sure there are some old classical with violins in the huge number of boxes of 78's that I have. Oh, and I have an old Victrola that I made a trade with the previous owner of my house for some repairs but I don't play records on them. I also had an Edison with the big thick records (remember those) and the cylinder types that were Edison firsts can still be had for about $1000 on Ebay some with many fine old cyliynder records if you remember those. There are thousands of those little blue round things out there to buy if you know what I'm talking about.<br /><br />Incidentally, records are coming back. People just find the sound of CD's too harsh and newer better mediums just aren't there yet, or at least a standard hasn't been developed yet. MP3's are a step down in audio quality. I've been thinking of putting my old 78's up on Youtube but I haven't got that set up yet but I'm sure they're all out of copyright by now (but one never knows with our copyright laws).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-2419197708731423202010-12-30T14:49:30.369-05:002010-12-30T14:49:30.369-05:00Dr. Canales is truly great. I will note all of th...Dr. Canales is truly great. I will note all of these events. I've already presented at the Springfield Public Forum on "Philosophy and Star Trek". (Yeah, I know...) <br /><br />Elms is a neat school. It's enrollment is way up to about one thousand students, which is a scale I understand. Half are nursing majors. The working class character and ethnic diversity of its student body puts most schools to shame. <br /><br />I've loved the heck out of this blog. If you are in the area again, contact me.Murfmenschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00031877154740991965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-13327874015517675252010-12-30T00:29:08.985-05:002010-12-30T00:29:08.985-05:00Dear Murfmensch [I am preserving your anonymity], ...Dear Murfmensch [I am preserving your anonymity], first of all, you must give my love to Cristina Canales, Chair of the Division of Humanities, and old, old friend. It looks, from your bio, as though our fields of interest almost exactly coincide.<br /><br />OK, music in the Pioneer Valley. For early music, in the summer, there is Aston Magna, and in the Amherst area, a group whose name has fallen from my mind. Also, the Amherst or Five College Early Music festival in the summers. In Springfield, there is the Springfield Symphony. Sitting in the first chair of the viola section is my former viola teacher, Delores Thayer, a beautiful blond woman with a big tone. :)<br /><br />For fun stuff [and for your five year old] there is the valley Light Opera, which usually does a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta each year.<br /><br />For a pretty good program of folk and pop and blues and such like musical groups, check out the Iron Horse Cafe in Northampton [generally speaking, Northampton is where things are happening, not Amherst, which is stuffy and rather pc.]<br /><br />That should get you started. Welcome to the Valley.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-86764622885101636202010-12-29T23:55:58.913-05:002010-12-29T23:55:58.913-05:00While I am no teenager, I am new to Western Mass a...While I am no teenager, I am new to Western Mass and would appreciate any advice on where to see music. I am especially interested in places to take my five year old. <br /><br />BTW-- I am the new philosopher at Elms College in Chicopee.Murfmenschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00031877154740991965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-44937684570029252672010-12-29T19:19:00.926-05:002010-12-29T19:19:00.926-05:00Thanks for the kind offer to write a guest post on...Thanks for the kind offer to write a guest post on my research! I'd love to take you up on it. I'll contact you by email when I have put something together.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149297148185001748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-60584140422161664562010-12-29T00:38:14.187-05:002010-12-29T00:38:14.187-05:00Chris, that sounds fascinating. Would you like to...Chris, that sounds fascinating. Would you like to do a guest post on the subject for this blog? If so, the forum is yours.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-72166926367400183012010-12-28T16:58:51.353-05:002010-12-28T16:58:51.353-05:00The Shaw papers are not in the Beinecke but in the...The Shaw papers are not in the Beinecke but in the Music Library's special collections. (Although the Beinecke has lots of music-related things too.) It always surprises me that some of his old books ended up in the stacks, but I suppose there wasn't anything very noteworthy about them except the "From the Library of Robert Shaw" stamp in the front cover -- no annotations or anything.<br /><br />At some point in the last year or so, the Music Library put out a special exhibit of some selections from the Shaw collection. I remember two things from it very well. One was a score marked up for performance in Shaw's characteristic colored pencils -- different colors for tempo changes, dynamic changes, cues, and so on. (In my undergraduate conducting class we were taught to do this too.) The other was a memo he'd written to his choir after a rehearsal, as apparently he did after every rehearsal. The memo is really something: Shaw was apparently enormously energized by rehearsals and his enthusiasm and zeal just about leap off the page. Not hard to imagine that, as you say, his conducting was extremely physical. I never saw him conduct in person.<br /><br />My dissertation is on what we music theorists call form and tonal structure in Bach. I'm seeking to reconstruct elements of generic convention in particular types of pieces which Bach composed (among them, selected movements from the church cantatas and from the keyboard dance suites). The epistemology of comparative music analysis also plays a role. It's a big project and is only just getting underway!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149297148185001748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-29859967584215088562010-12-28T12:16:03.220-05:002010-12-28T12:16:03.220-05:00Chris, that is truly extraordinary. What an oppor...Chris, that is truly extraordinary. What an opportunity! Are they in that cathedral of books, The Beineke? Many, many years ago I attended a concert at Town Hall in New York by what was then called the Robert Shaw Chorale. It was an astonishing contrast to the old Mormon Tabernacle Choir, which massed seemingly thousands of singers on a stage and even then managed only to make a muddled and dampened sound. Shaw had something like thirteen singers, and he positioned them on the stage in three ranks, man woman man woman man woman, regardless of voice. There was perhaps two feet between singers. They sang so perfectly in tune that they made a simply enormous and very beautiful sound. It was a dramatic demonstration of the phenomenon of sound waves perfectly in synch reinforcing one another.<br /><br />Also unlike previous conductors, Shaw had a very muscular way of conducting -- a lot with the shoulders [someting that Hal Aks, my conductor, imitated]. It was intensely sexual.<br /><br />What aspect of Bach's music are you writing about?Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-67866607011400469822010-12-28T11:00:46.385-05:002010-12-28T11:00:46.385-05:00Speaking of Robert Shaw and Bach:
When Shaw died,...Speaking of Robert Shaw and Bach:<br /><br />When Shaw died, Yale got his papers and books. Those included his set of the 100-volume <i>Neue Bach-Ausgabe</i>, the new "Urtext" that was completed a few years ago. Presumably the volumes that Shaw had extensively marked up for performance went into special collections, but the volumes that were just clean copies went into the stacks.<br /><br />So as a Yale Ph.D. student in the music department, and one writing a dissertation on Bach no less, I frequently have some of Robert Shaw's own copies of Bach in my possession (for a few months at a time). I always get a little bit of pleasure from that.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149297148185001748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-18910330499527090142010-12-28T09:51:41.203-05:002010-12-28T09:51:41.203-05:00So sorry I missed your birthday Professor :-(So sorry I missed your birthday Professor :-(NotHobbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443644930695303411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-9244231349028432652010-12-28T09:32:12.414-05:002010-12-28T09:32:12.414-05:00I don't know whether I am a representative sam...I don't know whether I am a representative sample of college students, but I myself have spent way too much time listening to youtube videos of the Bach double violin concerto (while doing useful work, of course).coherentsheafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03683811799665701226noreply@blogger.com