The NYC public library's collection of old restaurant menus is a remarkable assemblage of graphics and gustatory history. I mentioned it a few weeks ago n this space, and have been dipping back now and then to find items of local interest. Here's the menu for the 1905 Cinderella Ball:
On the menu:
Loin AND squab? What a feast. As for Nesselrode Pudding: surely it tastes better than it looks.
A bit of doggeral on the back:
Yes, I guess he did.
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POP IS DEAD Guardian columnist declares that pop music "belongs to the last century," and the future belongs to Classical music.
Translation: he got old.
Well, I'm sure that's what they say in the comments. Checking . . . yep. Well, as far as his critique of pop goes, it's been so for half a century, and . It's possible to like both, of course, and those of us who grew up enjoying pop AND orchestra music AND later found the pleasures of jazz know you don't have to choose. As Duke Ellington said: if it sounds good, it is good.
He expanded the idea elsewhere:
This doesn't mean pop is equal to classical. Four guys on instruments playing a 2:41 song is not the same as an entire orchestra playing Mahler's Second. The technique, talent, and time required to master the latter is a thousand times more demanding.
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