RE: Mozart's 42nd - yeah, right

["Williamson, Mark" <MWilliamson@alston.com>]

I also enjoyed reading these articles.  I think I have heard some of
these computer works on the radio and found them mildly convincing.  But
I definitely resonated with the discussion as to whether proper
attention is given to form and structure.  It may sound like Mozart
measure by measure but if it is not properly organized it is not Mozart
. . .

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bob & Judy Williams [SMTP:prospero@netins.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 26, 1998 9:32 AM
> To:	f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> Subject:	Mozart's 42nd - yeah, right
> 
> Good article, lots of fascinating stuff. I fixated on EMI's 
> inventor's reaction to the statement of one man who spoke from the 
> audience after EMI's "Mozart." The man said there was nothing in 
> EMI's performance that sounded like Mozart. Cope, EMI's inventor, 
> dismissed this as the statement of a man who had come to the concert 
> with his mind already made up. Perhaps, but it does sound as if Cope 
> had already made up HIS mind about any audience member who was not 
> prepared to be blown away by EMI. That one man may have been the only 
> member of the audience whose opinion was worth having.
> 
> Bob prospero@netins.net