Moral Dillema

[Mambo]

Originally Posted by Quijote

All right, I've checked my present fragrance (L'eau d'Issey pour Homme / Issey Miyake), and I think it's OK to splash it on, at least until someone points out to me that Miyake has a dodgy past.

But to address another malevolently malodorous moral dilemma : whether to boycott performances of certain Bruckner symphonies that use the Haas editions? Haas was also a committed Nazi, but made (we shall admit) some effective editorial decisions. Conductors such as Boulez, Tintner, Haitink et al) favour Haas over Nowak. Really, what is one to do?

It's OK Quijote - we dont have smellovision - always would like to have that during some cooking shows.
I dont know why they dont run reruns of 'The Galloping Gourmet'
He was every bit an entertainer like Emeril Lagasse on Food TV.
Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet) used to show short
film clips before and relevant to the dish he was going to prepare -
one day it was Wellington, N.Z. for Beef Wellington.
And he had a wine glass at hand 'to take a (frequent) short slurp' -
by mid-show he was fairly well snockered.

Good point too about those 'dodgy' pasts.
If we put every composer under the microscope before listening
to a work of his, we may be hardly listening to anything,
if that gets in the way.
human quirkiness - a subject for several threads.
Schoenberg was a triskadecaphobic and died at age 76
(at which someone noted 7+6=13). No doubt he was an intellectual,
but he must have had a superstitious streak too.

[Mambo]

Originally Posted by Musaeus

No, only Carmina

hi Musaeus -
This is only the Orff work i am really familiar with too.
Carmina has been appropriated by so many for use in commercials that i'd be kind of curious if there is a list of where it has been used for that purpose.
If the commercials' producers had known about Orff's past, they may have chosen another piece.
But simple melodic form and driving rhythms are why it has
mass appeal. Suggest a little atonal Schonberg to the producer and imagine his reaction.
by the way, is Catulli Carmina any better than Carmina Burana..

[Musaeus]

Originally Posted by Mambo

Suggest a little atonal Schonberg to the producer and imagine his reaction.

Great idea - if I were an ad executive, I'd start splashing Schoenberg like a kind of musical fragrance around my ads for chocolate, coffee and skin cream: it could be extremely interesting

by the way, is Catulli Carmina any better than Carmina Burana..

No idea - will have to try it one day

[regnaD kciN]

Originally Posted by ReinerTorheit

However, if you've got any recordings of Carmina Burana, I suggest you bin them. Orff was a very active Nazi.

Not according to Michael Kater, whose acclaimed The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich goes into much detail about some quite famous names and their involvement with the Third Reich. Although Orff appears to be guilty (hilariously so) of trying to overstate his self-claimed anti-Reich activities after WWII's end, he does not appear to have been a Nazi at all, let alone a "very active" one.

[Balthazar]

Originally Posted by regnaD kciN

Not according to Michael Kater, whose acclaimed The Twisted Muse: Musicians and Their Music in the Third Reich goes into much detail about some quite famous names and their involvement with the Third Reich. Although Orff appears to be guilty (hilariously so) of trying to overstate his self-claimed anti-Reich activities after WWII's end, he does not appear to have been a Nazi at all, let alone a "very active" one.

Hi Reiner!