Karl’s Anthology of Alternative Literature

1. Elgar’s Enema Variations
2. Janáček’s Catalytic Mass
3. Britten’s Rejoice in the Clam
4. Ives plays Fenway—Three Bases in New England (courtesy of Joe Barron)
5. Puccini’s tender Madame Butterball
6. Debussy’s hesitant Prelude to an Afternoon on the Phone (courtesy of Barry Coleman)
7. Puccini’s La Spatula del West
8. Joh. Strauss Jr.’s toe-tapping Beautiful Blue Banjo
9. Haydn’s illuming The Cremation
10. Mozart’s probiotic Don Chobani
11. Wagner’s Tristan und Ebola
12. Messiaen’s primal Ourangoutangalîla
13. Boulez’s immovable Le marteau sans Métro
14. Bartók’s refined Miraculous Margarine
15. Reich’s Music for Eighteen Beauticians
16. Glass’s mesmerizing Coin-Operated Chotchkie
17. Cage’s well-planned Sonatas & Interludes for Prepaid Piano
18. Copland’s devotional Oblation Spring
19. Jn Adams’s fishery-conscious On the Transmigration of Sole
20. A truly different train—Pärt’s Caboose in memoriam Benjamin Britten

henningmusick: The self-evident truths we hold

henningmusick: The self-evident truths we hold

It is at last official that Out From the Unattended Baggage (flute, clarinet & bassoon) was not selected by the trio who placed the call.

Perhaps the title was too incendiary . . . .