[NewMusic] best of

[Phillip Greenlief]

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On Behalf Of George Cremaschi
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] best of


Typical: nice 'awards' from basically the only
publication in town, meaning the East Bay, which
if anyone hadn't noticed is where almost all of us
live and play at this point, and y'all get out yer
red pencils and pore over every line, looking for
each and every slight, imagined or real...hopefully
no one's sent a righteous e-mail to the anonymous author,
or it'll be another five years until the next honorable mention.

By the way, 'flutist' is corrrect, at least in this country...
'flautist' is, according to my MacBook dictionary,
"chiefly British".

-George


PG:

I didn't really have a problem with the article, but I still think
"ultracosmopolitan east bay" is damn funny. Yes, I live here. Yes, I
love 21 Grand...that's what we should be saying. We couldn't survive
without them and it's nice they got some recognition.

But if you didn't notice (although I'm sure you did), the EB Express
stopped supporting us when it was bought by the larger publishing
corporation (whoever it is that owns San Jose Mercury News) whose rules
are: if they don't pay for ads in our publications, we don't write about
them...that's hardly good journalism, or "free speech". Derk Richardson
and many other good writers were given the sack to make way for more
ads. I used to love the articles in the EBE (on any subject, not just
music), but now they offer little more than sound-bytes - and I don't
have to like that, or them just because they're "supporting us". They
"promote" 21 Grand in this article, but with a good dose of
condescension. They might as well say, "Oh, there goes those kooky
improvisers again - look, they don't even know which end of the trumpet
to blow on".

I read it because it's the only game in town. I don't have to bow down
to them just because they threw us a rather cracked bone of
appreciation.

"Flutist" sounds wrong to me. I can't help it. I don't care if it's in
the dictionary.