Re: Bush Strums as New Orleans drowns

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:53:01 -0400, in message
<IISdnS8CeI70NqbeRVn-iA@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Kip Williams <kiptw@xxxxxxxxxxx> caused electrons to dance and
photons to travel coherently in saying:

>Doug Wickstrom wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:08:29 -0400, in message
>> <1aidnVRwcu0nGqfeRVn-qQ@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Kip Williams <kiptw@xxxxxxxxxxx> caused electrons to dance and
>> photons to travel coherently in saying:
>>
>>
>>>Doug Wickstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:51:12 +0000 (UTC), in message
>>>><dhb870$el0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> nancyl@xxxxxxxxx (Nancy Lebovitz) caused electrons to dance and
>>>>photons to travel coherently in saying:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>In article <4339d039.349927140@localhost>,
>>>>>Doug Wickstrom <nimshubur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:20:53 +0000 (UTC), in message
>>>>>><dh9all$c3s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>nancyl@xxxxxxxxx (Nancy Lebovitz) caused electrons to dance and
>>>>>>photons to travel coherently in saying:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>As hard as it was for a genius mathematician (and iirc, Ramanujan
>>>>>>>was lucky as well as a genius), it's a lot harder for, say, a
>>>>>>>potential genius symphony conductor.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'd say it's impossible. He'd end up proving himself to be an
>>>>>>oxy moron.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I suspect I'm not getting a pun.
>>>>
>>>>No such thing as a "genius symphony conductor."
>>>
>>>I'd put Lenny Bernstein up for that honor. His lectures are fascinating,
>>>helped by his exuberant personality. I seem to recall he was called on
>>>to conduct a piece unexpectedly once, and did it cold, without a score
>>>in front of him. From where I sit, that looks like genius.
>>>
>>>Also, quite a few composers conducted their own works, including
>>>Beethoven. Are we defining "symphony conductor" in some way that
>>>excludes them?
>>
>> Conducting doesn't take require conducting genius. It doesn't
>> even require musical genius.
>>
>> It _does_ require musical competence, which the entire orchestra
>> has. The ability to conduct a piece on demand merely requires
>> sufficient familiarity with it to remember what comes next.
>>
>> Anyway, it's a musician's joke.
>
>Well, if it's a joke, I'll leave it alone. You seemed to be saying that
>no genius could be a conductor.

No, no conductor can be a genius.

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