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Alan Greenspan could have been ...
« on: Jul 6^th, 2002, 7:01am »

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I enjoyed this tidbit:

"HERE'S a little gem from Leader of the Band: The life of Woody Herman, by Gene Lees. Many of the sax players who played in Herman's bands or "herds" went on to be famous in their own right, including Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. Two quit early, but their names may still sound familiar. Leonard Garment became White House counsel for President Richard M. Nixon. Alan Greenspan now heads the US Federal Reserve. "

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« Reply #1 on: Jul 6^th, 2002, 9:44am »

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Thanks for the sax player trivia. I plan on passing this along to my daughter. She was an instrumental music major in college with saxophone being her primary instrument. I think the Alan Greenspan information will be of particular interest to her. I know it came as a surprise to me.

Many successful people have a musical background. More proof of the importance of music education. Wink

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« Reply #2 on: Jul 6^th, 2002, 11:58am »

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I had no idea that Mr. Greenspan could jam with the best of them. Shocker to me! I happen to think Mr. Greenspan is one of the most influencal men in the states right now. His economics mind is genius and when he speaks, consumers listen. As an economics major, I have the highest regard for Alan Greenspan and now that I know he has music in his blood, I have that much more respect for him.

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« Reply #3 on: Jul 7^th, 2002, 7:25am »

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on Jul 6^th, 2002, 11:58am, crypto wrote:

I happen to think Mr. Greenspan is one of the most influencal men in the states right now. His economics mind is genius and when he speaks, consumers listen.

Math and music seem to be so inextricably linked.

For you music fans here's another story, this time about copyright. I happened upon it at a newsgroup called misc.int-property. The issue is " Copyright in Silence".

It appears that John Cage composed and recorded a piece called 4:33 which was intended to be 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. It was recorded live so there are sounds in the piece but they are not the composition they are the audience reacting to the piece and the sound of the keyboard being closed at the end.

Here's the story from one poster to that newsgroup:

[snip] John Cage produced a "music" piece called "4:33", which
was actually 4 minutes 33 seconds of total silence. Recently, Mike Batt
produced an album, and he put a minute of silence between the regular
songs and a bonus track. As a joke, he put a title "1 Minute of
Silence" on that track, and credited it to composer Clint Cage, a
pseudonym he registered for himself.

The publishers of John Cage's album then claimed copyright infringement
-- that his one minute of silence was an unauthorized quote of his 4:33
of silence![/snip]

an interesting commentary follows amongst the newsgroup members if you want to find it here is a link which should work, http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&a mp;threadm=slrnai5rqc.93.isaac%40latveria.castledoom.org&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dcopyright%2Bon%2Bsilence%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dslrnai5rqc.93.isaac%2540latveria.castledoom.org%26rnum%3D1 . If that doesn't work then you could try a Google Search on Groups for the words Copyright in Silence.

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