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Tag Archives: music
Player piano as economic indicator
08-10-04 – 12:51:am
Garet Garrett, Ouroboros, or the Mechanical Extension of Mankind (NYC: Dutton, 1926) labors to explain what a player piano means:
As I write, the strains of a Liszt rhapsody float into my window. They come from a farmer’s cottage a little way down the road. Yesterday a motor truck stopped at his house and unloaded a [...]
“The Soviet Union was breaking the law!”
08-08-01 – 12:01:am
That is the considered opinion of the Société pour l’administration du droit de reproduction mécanique des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs (SDRM) on the subject of the USSR’s national anthem. SDRM just billed the filmmaker Jean-Christophe Soulageon a bill for EUR1000 because someone whistled seven seconds of the commie anthem “L’Internationale” in his 2004 film Insurrection [...]