Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-26-18 13:16 <=-

I'd heard that he had made what he considered a disadvantageous
agreement with one publisher, and fooled with his own opus numbers to make it so that another publisher would be allowed to print something current instead of sending to the first....

I was unclear ... he might have cared about the
financial consequences (and who doesn't), but he
didn't care about the historical record.

Ok, I'll go along with that...

And it's not quite clear whose idea these shenanigans were.

True.

Dvorak was a great composer and a nice guy, but the aw
shucksishness of his reputation is a public relations
fiction - when he said he was just a country bandleader,
his modesty was disingenuous in the extreme - he knew full
well he was the greatest Czech composer since Myslivicek
at least and in the same league as Brahms and Tchaikovsky.

And I'm sure he had an idea of the influence he was having on other composers....

Sounds accurate to me. :) Not that it's a bad thing to have amateur musicians.... :)

The movement was suborned by people with greater
ambitions than that (including friends of mine),
which led to a certain sag in musical integrity,
but now the Suzuki and other methods have
integrated into an uneasy amalgamation that
seems to do more good than harm.

There are good aspects of each of the different methods... I can see it possible to do more good than harm... :)

It's matured to the degree that no longer
does it turn out cute little robots, so that's
a good thing. My friend Laura, whom I've
described here, outgrew her Suzukiness and
became a pretty good musician.

Indeed a good thing... :)

proportion of sugars in a sweetener shouldn't be
a deal-breaker when it comes to survival.

I used to think that way... but it does appear that my system doesn't
do well with the HFCS, any more than it does with the artificial sweeteners, so I've been avoiding it more studiously than I used to...

What your system likes isn't necessarily the same
as what it can take. Perhaps HFCS is not a great
idea, but you're not going to die from it unless
there was something else seriously wrong.

Or it pushed something into becoming seriously wrong...

I can't think that way. There are all these
butterfly effect and for-want-of-a-nail
theories, but one could apply that to just
about anything.

I wasn't really going there.... more that I have seen empirically the
link between HFCS and diabetes, for instance... almost as certain as the
link between steroids and diabetes....

They have these nifty things nowadays called
computers, which keep track of things far too
detailed and fussicky for human brains.

At least that's the theory.... ;)

Okay, they're supposed to be able to do so, and
I submit that by and large they can.

Ok.... as long as they are properly programmed, anyway...

Sure, but it's generally easy to see if the
machine isn't taking care of the silly little
details - harder with bigger things.

True.... some things are harder to really take in the big picture....

... Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

Assuming the raw materials are good,
that's likely true.

Indeed, it's important to have good raw materials to start with... :)

ttyl neb

... Hearts are still red muscle meat, a sort of gateway offal.

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