Lili Boulanger was the more excellent composer, but it is Nadia Boulanger that I most frequently see as just 'Boulanger'
Some of the more aristocratic composers are going to require a rethink of the common page-layout for such programs, or else larger paper. I've already encountered this with one who has until recently not been well known in the USA, so we use "Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges" in preference to either 'Bologne' or merely 'Saint-Georges', as the goal is for the reader to know who it is we are talking about.
"as the goal is for the reader to know who it is we are talking about"--see, there's your mistake. The goal is not to clarify. It is to shame people for even indirectly expressing a preference for any with a traditional reputation, instead of taking every opportunity to support an artist for his political value, resolutely repressing any normative judgment of his art. Any missed opportunity to engage in this exercise is slacking, and slacking is silence, and silence is violence.
Maybe it would be simpler, and waste less ink, to simply truncate the male names. Leave off the Ludwig et al and simply call the guy Beethoven.
ReplyDeleteLili Boulanger was the more excellent composer, but it is Nadia Boulanger that I most frequently see as just 'Boulanger'
ReplyDeleteSome of the more aristocratic composers are going to require a rethink of the common page-layout for such programs, or else larger paper. I've already encountered this with one who has until recently not been well known in the USA, so we use "Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges" in preference to either 'Bologne' or merely 'Saint-Georges', as the goal is for the reader to know who it is we are talking about.
No James! Let's first-name them. Let's start with Ludwig!
ReplyDeleteAh, let's just first-name them. Ludwig
ReplyDeleteAh, so its Frank Zappa, to be correct then. Good to know. ;)
ReplyDelete"as the goal is for the reader to know who it is we are talking about"--see, there's your mistake. The goal is not to clarify. It is to shame people for even indirectly expressing a preference for any with a traditional reputation, instead of taking every opportunity to support an artist for his political value, resolutely repressing any normative judgment of his art. Any missed opportunity to engage in this exercise is slacking, and slacking is silence, and silence is violence.
ReplyDeleteExcept for Lebron, or Adele. Those are fine.
ReplyDeleteThe artist formerly known as Mendelssohn.
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