Comments on: Documentary with Messiaenic Devastation http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2006/11/documentary-with-messiaenic.html Music in Seven Days from Seven Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Cramer http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2006/11/documentary-with-messiaenic.html/comment-page-1#comment-50 John Cramer Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:48:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=14#comment-50 Ah, the specter of compromise in creative work. Always a dicey idea. Oh well, who am I kidding, I'll watch it. Oh, and Stanley Crouch is a douche. Ah, the specter of compromise in creative work. Always a dicey idea. Oh well, who am I kidding, I’ll watch it. Oh, and Stanley Crouch is a douche.

]]> By: heids http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2006/11/documentary-with-messiaenic.html/comment-page-1#comment-49 heids Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:51:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=14#comment-49 Yeah, Mr. Burns made a fairly gross mistake in relying upon Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Crouch, and the rest of the Jazz at Lincoln Center crowd for the treatment of recent jazz history. Funny thing though, most of my jazz friends loved his archaelogical research for the earlier stuff.<br/><br/>During the Q&A for the preview of the WWII doc, a historian nailed KB & Co. for simplifying history by omitting the fact that we fought with the Japanese against the Koreans in one battle for one key island at the beginning of the war.<br/><br/>It seems a lot of editing decisions are based upon an assessment of the tastes and education-levels of a general PBS audience. I'm glad at least some truly outstanding works will slip in below the radar. Yeah, Mr. Burns made a fairly gross mistake in relying upon Wynton Marsalis, Stanley Crouch, and the rest of the Jazz at Lincoln Center crowd for the treatment of recent jazz history. Funny thing though, most of my jazz friends loved his archaelogical research for the earlier stuff.

During the Q&A for the preview of the WWII doc, a historian nailed KB & Co. for simplifying history by omitting the fact that we fought with the Japanese against the Koreans in one battle for one key island at the beginning of the war.

It seems a lot of editing decisions are based upon an assessment of the tastes and education-levels of a general PBS audience. I’m glad at least some truly outstanding works will slip in below the radar.

]]> By: Kilian http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2006/11/documentary-with-messiaenic.html/comment-page-1#comment-46 Kilian Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:17:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=14#comment-46 The story of <i>Quatuor pour la fin du temps</i> would be a great documentary on its own. I hope it is included in Ken Burns dealy. The music will be a much better soundtrack than would the theme to Hogan's Heroes. Even if those two are always mixed up in my wacked out mind. The story of Quatuor pour la fin du temps would be a great documentary on its own. I hope it is included in Ken Burns dealy. The music will be a much better soundtrack than would the theme to Hogan’s Heroes. Even if those two are always mixed up in my wacked out mind.

]]> By: John Cramer http://www.nonalignmentpact.com/2006/11/documentary-with-messiaenic.html/comment-page-1#comment-43 John Cramer Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:38:00 +0000 http://www.preddys.com/NAP/?p=14#comment-43 Ken Burns is using Messiaen and Part? I'm fairly amazed, considering his excising of virtually the entire jazz avant garde from damn near the sixties forward. This could be interesting.<br/>Hell, I loved the Jack Johnson bio. Ken Burns is using Messiaen and Part? I’m fairly amazed, considering his excising of virtually the entire jazz avant garde from damn near the sixties forward. This could be interesting.
Hell, I loved the Jack Johnson bio.

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