posted by James Reel
ABC News reports that a model college student and cellist faces sentencing for bank robbery:
On Dec. 9, 2005, … [Greg Hogan Jr.] walked into an Allentown, Pa., Wachovia bank and handed a teller a note that said he had a gun and demanded money.
The frightened teller gave Hogan $2,800. Hogan then went with friends to see The Chronicles of Narnia and have pizza. Later that day, police caught up with him as he went to play cello for the school orchestra.
What an idiot. No cellist-bank robber needs to use a gun. All he has to do is brandish his endpin.
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July 25th 2006 at 8:56 —
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posted by James Reel
Kyle Gann presents further evidence of the parochialism of Brit-oriented music critics. Gann is aghast that The Pimlico Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Composers (1999), by Mark Morris, contains full essays on such rather marginal English figures as William Alwyn, Ivor Gurney, Daniel Jenkyn Jones, Elizabeth Maconchy and Grace Williams, but barely mentions the more influential but American-based Morton Feldman—and that's just one example of its Anglocentric tendencies. You can find Gann’s full post here, and while you’re at it, you might care to review my own intemperate remarks on the general subject of British music criticism here.
PS: I like Alwyn's music, actually, but still, the English have been puffed with self-importance ever since they contrived to run the 0-degree longitude through Greenwich.
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July 25th 2006 at 7:32 —
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