I would like to read more detail about his feigning deafness. Did he learn sign language to cotinue the ruse? That would be dedication. Was he able to avoid flinching every time there was an unexpected loud noise? That takes steel. His long-form performance as a deaf composer is a set piece that would make my father, Andy Kaufman, proud.
The ghost-writer missed a great opportunity to test the Classical audience: he could've purposely written an awful car-wreck of a piece, palpable in its banality, and see if the critics would review it differently due to the Deafness paradigm. Emperor's Clothes, set to music.
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22 comments:
Oh Ludwig! No!
Mamoru Samuragochi for President!
This is like finding out that rural actor Will Shakespeare did not write the plays or that Bob Dylan did not write the lyrics.
In Dylan's case it probably is Bob's writing, because if he wanted to fake something it would have been the singing voice and not writing the lyrics.
Who wrote, "all the world's a stage..." Was it Will or Bob? Derp, we don't get to hear Will sing his sonnets on iTunes to get a clue.
There's a sign language interpreter in South Africa who is looking for a job. He'd be perfect for Samuragochi.
I would like to read more detail about his feigning deafness. Did he learn sign language to cotinue the ruse? That would be dedication. Was he able to avoid flinching every time there was an unexpected loud noise? That takes steel. His long-form performance as a deaf composer is a set piece that would make my father, Andy Kaufman, proud.
Judging from art I have seen there have been some blind painters.
Stephen King writes dialogue like he is deaf; hasn't stopped him yet.
Seventy-thousand seems kind of lowball considering the work that must have went into the actual composing. And who gets the video game royalties?
Re: "He told me that if I didn’t write songs for him, he’d commit suicide”
Maybe he would've paid someone else to commit the suicide for him.
Even fake artists are tortured, it seems.
The ghost-writer missed a great opportunity to test the Classical audience: he could've purposely written an awful car-wreck of a piece, palpable in its banality, and see if the critics would review it differently due to the Deafness paradigm. Emperor's Clothes, set to music.
What they need is Mr. Michael Brady in the courtroom, throwing his briefcase to the floor so it makes a loud bang.
Then we'll know about the actual whiplash, er, deafness.
Foremost, this awful piece would involve some bad plagiarism. Someone wrote that before? I never heard it!
The plagiarism would have to be from Beethoven, of course: Deaf minds think alike.
I am full of insight this morning. Or someone else is, but I'll take the credit for it.
Is that LasloSpatula or is it LasloSpatula3000?
@traditionalguy:
I should be so honored.
Or you could be Evelyn Glennie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Laslo Spatula said...
"I am full of insight this morning. Or someone else is, but I'll take the credit for it."
You are so presidential.
Why does this make me think of Obama?
Me, too, Mark O!
Remember Rosemary Brown?
4. Profit!
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