The Good News Only - thread...

[theclaud]

Now this is good news!


View: https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1669252090521108484?t=TK_EfNu0XXK_J7R0iH1FeA&s=19

 

[icowden]

Now this is good news!

And there was me thinking that it was just that he'd run out of classical composers to rip off..

 

[matticus]

Political Correctness Gawn just far enough?

 

[Beebo]

And there was me thinking that it was just that he'd run out of classical composers to rip off..

One of my music teachers used to work for him in the 80s.
He hated him, and said the just ripped off other people’s music, or came up with a very basic tune and expected others to do all the complicated orchestration to turn it into something decent.

 

[albion]

Better late than never.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/16/japan-age-of-sexual-consent-16/

 

[Ian H]

Now this is good news!


View: https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1669252090521108484?t=TK_EfNu0XXK_J7R0iH1FeA&s=19

♬Don't cry for An-drew Lloyd-Webber♬

 

[Rusty Nails]

One of my music teachers used to work for him in the 80s.
He hated him, and said the just ripped off other people’s music, or came up with a very basic tune and expected others to do all the complicated orchestration to turn it into something decent.

I'll bet that the multi millionaire writer of extremely popular musicals that have filled out theatres all over the world for 40 years will be absolutely devastated from that put down by a music teacher to one of his pupils.

I've also heard that Lewis Hamilton is rubbish at the wheel of a Fiat Panda and would never win a race if he didn't have help from a team of mechanics to do the complicated stuff.

 

[Ian H]

Ooh! I think we've upset a Lloyd-Webber fan.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Ooh! I think we've upset a Lloyd-Webber fan.

Tbh I hate most musicals and their overblown anthems, including those of Lloyd-Webber, although I did go to see and enjoy Hair more than 50 years ago and Guys and Dolls in Cardiff about seven years ago.

I do, however, really enjoy the criticisms of hugely successful people by possibly not quite so successful experts/critics.

 

[Ian H]

Tbh I hate most musicals and their overblown anthems, including those of Lloyd-Webber, although I did go to see and enjoy Hair more than 50 years ago and Guys and Dolls in Cardiff about seven years ago.

I do, however, really enjoy the criticisms of hugely successful people by possibly not quite so successful experts/critics.

So does crap art become immune to criticism if the artist has made lots of money from it?

 

[Rusty Nails]

So does crap art become immune to criticism if the artist has made lots of money from it?

Of course not. I just found that specific critique quite amusing.

Everyone has opinions etc. etc.

Including whether art is crap.

 

[AuroraSaab]

I've mostly liked the old Rice and LW stuff when I've seen it on stage years ago. It obviously brings a lot of pleasure to people, crap or not.

Better late than never.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/16/japan-age-of-sexual-consent-16/

I think it was Japan that only recently outlawed child abuse images. They gave people a year to wipe their hard drives.

 

[icowden]

He hated him, and said the just ripped off other people’s music, or came up with a very basic tune and expected others to do all the complicated orchestration to turn it into something decent.

To be fair, that's pretty normal practice. It's rare that the writer of a musical does the orchestration.
https://www.musicalwriters.com/musi... writers,rather limited number of instruments.

And to be fair to ALW he often works quite closely with his orchestrator (or at least takes credit). For example Phantom was orchestrated by David Cullen and ALW. In fact David Cullen does all of ALWs orchestration.

ALW is a populist writer. He knows how to nick a catchy tune and repurpose it, and knows that most of his audience won't have listened to it. The reason that musical theatre lovers tend to regard his stuff as poor quality or trashy is that, particularly in his more recent musicals, his pioneering technique of bludgeoning the audience repeatedly with the same tune has become a bit naff and the music doesn't change with the mood of the musical - it becomes a bit like musical wallpaper, and very predictable.

 

[albion]

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-panel-perovskite-china-b2360104.html

Whilst not yet gospel it looks promising for light weight, cheap, put everywhere solar power.
Longevity of the cells might yet be an issue though.

 

[Ian H]

They gave people a year to wipe their hard drives.

There's nothing worse than a sticky hard drive [/badtaste]