Cole Parker

Beethoven's 7th is an amazing piece. It truly shows the man's greatness. The second movent is one of the few pieces in the genre that is all rhythm with basically no melody. How could he do that and still make the movement hypnotizing? Astounding. C

Any author can do this now if he wants, completely outside the scope of a website. I personally enjoy the feedback of readers, either emails or forum coments. Once the story is in book form, my understanding is that feedback is negligible or completely absent. I don't know the why of the serialization of stories with a day or two or a week or more between chapter postings. Ever since I started reading and writing online, this has been the way story sites have operated. I too would rather have the entire story available to read at my own pace. Is it possible it was done as it is now because many authors posted a chapter as it was written, and there was a pause then while the next chapter was being written? I think that was sometimes the case. If the site does get some sort of remuneration from the number of hits it generates, that would be a reason to do it this way as well, but I haven't seen that. I know a writer who has used Amazon and now has three books self-published. As of now, there has been zero feedback from any purchaser and only very modest sales. Talk about a moitivation killer! C

I've always regretted my lack of appreciation for popular music. Like tomatoes. Growing up, I hated raw tomatoes. Yet I saw everyone else loving them, and realized I was the one missing out. I would have liked to enjoy them. I couldn't. Everyone liked the popular music of the age, but when you've grown up listening to Wagner, Brahms, Beethoven, Dvorak, Rachmaninov and the like, I just didn't get it. It's funny, but if I go back and listen to the popular music of the 50's now, I find it quite tuneful; nothing like the pop music of a few years ago and today. I do realize I'm limited by what I'm not fond of. But what can you do? Trying to force yourself to like something you don't doesn't work. I do like the Gershwin piece. His Rhapsody in Blue is just one of the classical pieces he wrote, combining classical and jazz styles, and they all are good. I think it's the underlying classical form they're written in that make them approachable to me. Most jazz, though, I simply don't get. Too free-form for me, I think. I look for a melody line and it's usually not there. But again, I'm the one missing out. The more things you like, the richer your life is. C

should find out tomorrow

Didn't realize I was.

My prejudices, sure. They're mine, and I take full ownership of them. I don't like cooked carrots, either. We all have our likes and dislikes, and people who don't share our specific ones wonder what's wrong with us. C

Music, yes. That stuff? No. C

And my knowledge of popular music is, I'm sure, much less than yours of the classical genre. I was in high school when the Beetles became a smash in the country. I never could understand why. C

Steve, You've probably got the wrong time frame on when the $75 was listed. Yes, today, and even in the 1990s, major orchestra players made more than that. But there was an earlier time when that was good money indeed, especially for women. You've never heard of Dennis Brain? Or Barry Tuckwell? Odd. Herman Baumann would be less of surprise. There aren't a huge number of notable horn soloists, but there are a few now and were a few back then. There are many concertos written for piano and violin, fewer for cello. Fewer still for horn. But you'd be amazed at how many there are. Here's a list of horn concertos by well-known composers. It leaves out concertos by other, lesser-known composers; that list is even longer: Bach, 1, Quantz, 4, Telemann, 6, Vivaldi, 2, Danzi, 1, Michael Haydn, 2, Joseph Haydn, 4, L. Mozart, 1, W.A.Mozart, 4, Bellini, 1, Franz Strauss, 1, Gliere, 1, Hindemith, 1, Jacob, 1, R Strauss 2. C

Sounds suspiciously like a religious element. C

Throw in some time travel and you'll have a winner.

I see that grin your avatar is wearing, and can't read what you wrote here without thinking a similar grin was on your face when you wrote it.

Lovely! We've missed these! C

Huh. I hadn't realized they had stories with those names. But there was no copying. Both those guys are good friends of mine. C

At least yoyu can imagine what the parents' favorite TV show was. c

When you're my age, anyone under 60 is young.

Very well-written story so far from a brilliant young author. Well, I have no idea if he's young, But he sounds like he is. C

Musicality and mature sound are invariably absent in young wind and brass players. They don't feel the music. They're too busy playing the notes. Even when the marking is for rutabaga. C

Both gentlemen are asesome dudes.

Twenty-two and a half feet, if you want to be exact.

Glad to see you're into it! The Glière's Nocturne is standard student literature, assuming it's an advance student. I get a little tired of hearing it, actually! C

The only other person who absolutely adored Distorter Perspectives that I was aware of was Gordon Klopfenstein. He even wrote senveral additional chapters to it. He wanted more about the yonger brother. Otherwise, I think the story went rather unnoticed. It was a very difficult story to write, but I think it made the point I was trying to make. Thanks, Steve.

Of course, no mattter what else he might have written or said, he was right on the money with saying DDG was the best story on the site. No one could dispute that! 😁 C

That Chrisian nationalism threat I think is very real. They're trying to establish footholds all over at grassroot levels. Town boards, school boards, state legislatures, city governments and the like, and they're pursuing odious agendas. Banning books that are helpful to childrens' understanding of the real world the inhabiit and trying to push a fictitious one based an Biblical concepts that have been proven false by sciences. Threatening womens' rights and control over their own bodies. Pushing for a theocracy. This is a real threat, and it's growing. C

I've known women like that. Who of us haven't? C