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Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 03:26:00 -0400
From: "glen~lbany.net"
Subject: Re: Ode to Joy

> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 10:16:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ode to Joy Summer Challenge
> Subject: RE: Ode To Joy
>
> Ron harp1111 writes:
>
> >Alec, I really am sure 100 percent , you nor any one
> >on this list would ever be satisfied or convinced ,
> >even if the perfect song slapped you in the face,
> >most of you would find something to bitch
> >about.somewhere,no doubt.
>
> Anyone on this list? Do you really know every person
> on this well enough to make a blanket statement like
> that?
>
> Even for those of us who have spoken up, the evidence
> runs in the opposite direction.
>
> I created the Ode Challenge website to stimulate open
> discussion, and to get players to share and compare.
> We can all learn a lot and grow as players from doing
> things like this.
>
> I didn't do all that hard work because I would never
> be satisfied with any of the results or because I
> wanted to bitch. Bitching requires practically no
> effort - most people who just bitch, and never find
> anything good to say, are the people who never lift a
> finger to do anything positive.
>
I think Winslow's idea is a very good one, and I don't understand the
objection here. It's perfectly innocous idea that deals with hitting note
bends on key, and that's not always easy. So a bunch
of people try it and compare the results. What's wrong with that?
And this is a tune with a mighty history. Beethoven wanted to set this peom
by Schiller to music for a full twenty years before he composed the Ninth
Symphony. And then Richard Wagner based his
life's work on the rather slender premise that the fact that Beethoven had
ended his last symphony with a choral movement meant that opera was the
highest form of music. It's hard to think of
another melody in the history of music with such pivotal importance.
Let it roll, Winslow.

Glenn Weiser