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 ******* 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 >>> >> >> >