Comments on: What is the deal with this.

By: karen

karen — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:23:58 +0000

I’ve replayed the PÃ¤rt piece several times already. Your description of it is so musical and convincing. I love this post.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:42:19 +0000

That its vs. it’s problem drives me crazy. I send emails to fellow bloggers when they get that wrong. Don’t even get me started on lose vs. loose!

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:56:54 +0000

Hi! I’ve just discovered your music. Love at first listen…
I found this blog looking for informations about you.
Speaking of repetition: I’m writing my final “tesi” (dissertation) in philosophy. It’s a work about Steve Reich, aesthetic formalism and its limits. I found a very interesting book by Robert Fink, in wich he suggests a cultural-historical hermeneutic of repetition in musical minimalism.
I would really know your opinion about this…
You can find introduction and chapter 1 here:

http://homepage.mac.com/rfink1913/.Public/Repeating%20Ourselves/RO%20-%20Introduction.pdf

http://homepage.mac.com/rfink1913/.Public/Repeating%20Ourselves/RO%20-%201.pdf

Thanks for your music, Nico.
And sorry for my english. My mothertongue is italian.

By: The Ridger

The Ridger — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:00:10 +0000

It’s spelling, not grammar.

By: Bruce Tutcher

Bruce Tutcher — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:16:29 +0000

I’ve been tiptoeing around PÃ¤rt (I’ll need to deconstruct that phrase) for years. This is it: the entry into a composer’s work (proper possessive) through one moment. How can something so lush be so devastating? Like Wolfie’s final Requiem or a Bergman landscape. Many thanks. I did double check the gerund as well, and it was good. Now I’ll need to edit down those (damn) parenthetical phrases.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:28:20 +0000

never had you down as a grammar fetishist nico. Language yes, but isn’t grammar just a little mundane to complain about?

By: Chris Hodge

Chris Hodge — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:48:16 +0000

I wonder if the Obamas will be planting a spaghetti crop?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:44:47 +0000

perhaps you are responsible... Mrs. Obama, who said that she never had a vegetable garden before, said the idea for it came from her experiences as a working mother trying to feed her daughters, Malia and Sasha, a good diet. Eating out three times a week, ordering a pizza, having a sandwich for dinner all took their toll. The childrenâ€s pediatrician told her she needed to be thinking about nutrition.

By: S.E. Kramer

S.E. Kramer — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:16:04 +0000

Glad to see that the copy editor got around to it: “Eating out three times a week, ordering a pizza, having a sandwich for dinner all took their toll.” Still not the world’s greatest sentence…

By: Tomasz

Tomasz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:04:47 +0000

Nico,

Part’s Music is The hidden truth of man’s relationship with Spirit and Nature.

a Mystic in Musical Expression.

🙂

By: charles sullivan

charles sullivan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:18:54 +0000

mr. wilson knows mr. glass knows miss stein….its/it’s wild.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:40:27 +0000

wow, this is a beautiful piece. Thank you for posting it.