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At what point does an aside become a tangent, a tangent a digression, a digression a meander, a meander a reamble, a reamble a circumlocution, a circumlocution an excursus and an excursus a cul-de-sac?
Dwight Garner – NYTimes
All the way to the bottom of this blog I will explain the significance of this almost unknown Vancouver punk composition. I have the record!
Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold
That quote from today’s NY Times Sunday Book Review came to my mind.
When my granddaughter Rebecca (now 27) was 7 she and her sister Lauren would spend Saturdays with us in our Kerrisdale home. On one Saturday evening while having dinner I asked Rebecca what day of the week it was. She answered that it was Saturday. I showed her my thick copy of next day’s Sunday NY Times (to this day I get it on Saturday night). She was confused!
Today I went to a lovely baroque concert at St. Anselm’s Church on the way to UBC. The concert featured composers I had never heard of like J.J. Walther, Nicola Matteis, and Orlando Gibbons. Then harpsichordist Christina Hutten told us she was going to play a contemporary piece by a Canadian composer Grégoire Jeay.
When you have never heard of a composer and you hear something of theirs for the first time I categorize it as “new music”.
To make me more aware of the importance of these St.Anselm’s concerts, when the trio played Dietrich Becker’s (en su casa lo conocen, my grandmother would quote this to me and it translates as “they know who he is at his home”) Sonata in A major I can attest it is one of the happiest compositions I have ever heard. It should be played for Christmas.
The playing of so much unknown music (unknown to me) immediately made me think of the Secret Vs and their inimitable composition Waiting for the Drugs to Take Hold. It is one of my favourite Vancouver compositions from the 80s.
