Re: CHAT: composer names (Re: CHAT: A flat minor)

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:21:17PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> >That's interesting. Esp. with the [f]. So apparently the Chinese
> >pronunciation isn't too far off: [pEj t_hwO f@n] (the [p] here being, of
> >course, unaspirated, and would sound closest to [b]).
>
> I think in Korean, Beethoven is something like [pe t_ho ben].
> Bach renders out as [pa ha], Chopin as [tSo peN] or somesuch.
Reminds me of some hilarious (though somewhat offensive) conversations I
had with this guy who hated anything and everything not Baroque. He calls
Dvorak "dvo-crap", and Chopin becomes "show-pain", etc., etc.. He's pretty
hardheaded about it, which makes his childish name-butchering all the more
funny.

> And I can't even remember how Burgmueller got rendered except that it was
> butchered all to hell.  *grin*  Much like the way I used to play those
> etudes...
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Well, you can't be worse than me in this respect... from time to time I
"show off" the 3rd movement of Beethoven's "moonlight" sonata, and I hold
down the pedal for those crazy arpeggioo runs 'cos I just *don't* play
them right. Not to mention lack of practice and general rustiness made me
miss almost every other note, etc., etc.. And purportedly, I am a
Beethoven fan...

I tried tackling Chopin's "revolutionary" etude once, but gave up 'cos my
left hand just wasn't cooperating. I'm generally a lot more comfortable
staying in my ivory tower and composing things that others would perform
for me. :-P


T

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