-----Original Mess----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: 24 Ñåïòåìâðè 1999 ã. 00:09 Subject: Re: LaRouche
>Oiboy27 at aol.com wrote:
>
>>Of course, if one saw the world through piss-colored lenses one
>>would consider Louis II, and every other national leader since, only doing
>>things for his own aggrandizement. Unfortunately, I discarded those lenses
>>when I gave up listening to Black Flag and Discharge in favor of Vivaldi
and
>>Verdi.
>
>But with Verdi, you've exchange piss for the red, white, and green
>lenses of Italian nationalism! Didn't Italian nationalists turn his
>name into an acronym for Vittorio Emmanuel, Reggio d'Italia, or
>something like that?
>
>And gosh, if you're going to go for the classical canon, why pick the
>upper middlebrow elevator music of Vivaldi and the operatic bombast
>of Verdi? I saw a concert performance recently of a Verdi opera and
>it was striking how little substance there was to the music. You need
>the scenery and grand scale of a stage to take your mind off the lack
>of any element but melody. On that score, I'm with Adorno & Jameson.
>A long excerpt from Jameson's Marxism and Form says it best: