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Re: Adagio for strings, Samuel Barber.

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Subject: Re: Adagio for strings, Samuel Barber.
From: "Ian McKechnie" <mckechnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 18:44:10 +0000
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Andy Wooler
wrote:
> Alec wrote:
> >If anyone *does* know of such an abomination, could they please keep very,
> >very quiet about it, please?
> >Issued on behalf of music-lovers everywhere,
> 
> As someone who thinks this work is one of the finest of it's genre, I take
> great exception to you claiming to speak on behalf of music lovers
> everywhere.
> There are many of us on this list who completely disagree with your
> statement. By all means express an opinion but don't claim to do so on
> behalf of others please.

But if, in fact, he does speak on behalf of others, then he is 
perfectly entitled to make the point.  And while on that subject, I 
suspect you have misunderstood his comment : it is not the Barber 
Adagio for strings which he objects to, but the idea of arrranging it 
for brass band.

By the way, although I agree with the statement about "the finest of 
its genre" I was a little unclear as to what you meant.  Did you mean 
that the original, as a piece for string orchestra it was the finest? 

Or did you mean that the brass band version, as an example of 
crass, inappropriate and tasteless transcription for an inappropriate 
medium, was a classic example ?

Both statements have significant support in the musical community at 
large, of course. 
Ian McKechnie
<mckechnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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