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   Moyra J.Bligh to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated   
   Re: OT: Bytes and Beethoven (NY Times)   
   18 Jan 11 17:16:42   
   
   On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:11:12 -0800 (PST), Duggy   
    wrote:   
   >On Jan 17, 10:56 pm, Dan Dassow  wrote:   
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   >> A number of musicians on RASTB5.mod may  find this article   
   >> interesting.   
   >>   
   >> http://preview.tinyurl.com/Bytes-and-Beethovenhttp://www.nyti   
   es.com/2011/01/16/arts/music/16string.html?nltodayshe...   
   >>   
   >> ... The Borromeo String Quartet was rehearsing Beethoven?s Quartet in   
   >> C (Op. 59, No. 3) last week. But instead of reading parts perched on   
   >> music stands, they followed Beethoven?s notes, in his own handwriting,   
   >> from the screens of MacBooks. A projector attached to a laptop beamed   
   >> the manuscript onto a screen behind them. ...   
   >   
   >Ah, man, I hate that.  Beethoven's a great guy and everything, but I   
   >never seem to able to get him to stop writing on screens.  Computers,   
   >televisions, everything.  I give him heaps of paper to use, but he   
   >just loves to vandalise electronic equipment.  I've yelled at him   
   >about it, but he never seems to listen.   
   He's deaf, he can't hear you......   
   (playing the obvious straight line).   
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