[Trombone-l] Conch shell on Reveultas

[Michael Millar]

Great quote, Alex! At least he slammed the band with style!

For an entertaining collection of bad reviews, check out Nicolas Slonimsky's 
"Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical assaults on Composers Since 
Beethoven's Time."

Example:
"Beethoven's Second Symphony is a crass monster, a hideously writhing 
wounded dragon, that refuses to expire, and though bleeding in the finale, 
furiously beats around with its tail erect."

MWM
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Dr. Michael W. Millar
Valencia, CA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ALEX ILES" <alexiles at earthlink.net>
To: "Daniel Pliskin" <daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com>
Cc: <TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Conch shell on Reveultas


Gotta agree with DanP on this one. It WAS a favorable review of the
piece [of the just about the whole concert, in fact!]. His tone was
pretty harsh, but I gathered he actually LIKED hearing you play the
conch shell!! At least for the novelty of it.

He definitely could/should have chosen his words more carefully.

My own most memorable bad review came when I was on tour with Maynard
Ferguson back in the mid-eighties....

This came from the Washington Post...

"The Maynard Ferguson Orchestra displays all the subtlety of pile
driver gone berserk in a wind tunnel."

Even Maynard loved it!

LX
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On Sep 10, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Daniel Pliskin wrote:

>
> Raymond,
>
>>
>> “You don't often see a large man in white tie and tails blowing
>> into a
>> conch shell (do you think his mother beams, ‘My son, the conch
>> player!?’).”
>
>
>> I wrote a letter to the paper, but I don't know if I should send it.
>> Does this just make me sound defensive and pathetic? Here it is:
>
>
>
> Considering the general tone of this writing, I believe that you
> got a favorable review.  And he got to have a bit of fun with you.
>
> In general, what happens is not what pisses us off.  Instead, it’s
> our interpretation of what happened, it’s what we make what
> happened mean.  I believe that you’ve chosen to be offended by
> this, when no offense was intended.  He’s having fun playing with
> words and lots of people enjoy reading those words.  And I believe
> that you’d come off as more professional, more powerful, more
> magnanimous, if you chose to let it slide.
>
> Now, if I were the pianist, I’d let him know that he should stick
> to listening to MIDI files, if all he cares about is getting the
> notes right.
>
> DanP
>
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