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Your upload is still there as of about 5 minutes ago, Tom.
If you, or anyone else here, should locate a later, better, more balanced
performance of this piece I would like to hear it.
Malcolm

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On 12/31/2015 3:45 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> I've now put the audio of the premiere performance up at Dropbox:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/fl7s8skcq3q3ggw/NY%20Philharmonic%20670427%20-%2001-Lukas%20Foss%20-%20Phorion%20%28world%20premiere%29.mp3?dl=0 
>
>
> I cannot guarantee Dropbox will allow too many downloads, so if you 
> want it, grab it.
>
> Anyone who knows a better no-fee system, I'm all ears. I have a lot of 
> offbeat and obscure audio I'd love to share, but don't want to pay to 
> share it. Is there any easy way to do Youtubes with just audio, for 
> instance is there software that will just put some generic image 
> around an audio file and render it to a video? Youtube apparently 
> requires some sort of video element for a file upload. I certainly 
> don't have the time or inclination to get into video production to 
> share audio, but if there's some automated way to select an audio file 
> and a photo file and get a MPEG or MOV file that's Youtube compatible 
> rendered out of it, I'll try it.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of 
> music"
>
>
>> I've always known it from recordings and like it -- I think it is an
>> important piece, just by virtue of being a "mash-up."
>> I do think that Foss' own recording, with Buffalo for Nonesuch, is a bit
>> more convincing than Bernstein's, which seems
>> more exploratory and tentative.
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Uncle Dave Lewis
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Steven Smolian <[log in to unmask]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I was at that concert and hated the piece.  PDQ Bach it wasn't, nor 
>>> had it
>>> the snarkiness of Alfred Schnittke nor the dry gumor of Cage. It 
>>> seemed a
>>> mash-up with no apparent connections of the inserts to one another 
>>> nor to
>>> the musical framework.
>>>
>>> Steve Smolian
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 4:41 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of 
>>> music"
>>>
>>> It's not often that a scathing review like this gets written:
>>>
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qbixnsusqkd5c2/World%20Journal%20Tribune%20670428 
>>>
>>> %20Lucas%20Foss%20piece%20booed%20by%20NYPO%20audience.pdf?dl=0
>>> or that people jeer at a NY Philharmonic concert!
>>>
>>> Listen and judge for yourself:
>>>
>>> https://soundcloud.com/tom-fine-1/ny-philharmonic-concert-april-27-1967-luka 
>>>
>>> s-foss-phorion-world-premiere/s-LZz7Y
>>>
>>> Recording found on a yard-sale reel tape, the review was included in 
>>> the
>>> box. Surprisingly good fidelity for quarter-track off-air taping, 
>>> although
>>> the channels were reversed and there's considerable edge warp on the
>>> ancient
>>> acetate-backed 1-mil tape.
>>>
>>> Happy New Year!
>>>
>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>
>>
>>
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