On Wed, May 11, 2016 1:49 am, Will Godfrey wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2016 21:23:21 -1000 > david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 05/08/2016 10:43 PM, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: >> > On 08/05/16 14:48, Will Godfrey wrote: >> >> The man who first inspired me with synthesised sound and music is no >> >> more :( >> >> >> >> R.I.P. Mr Tomita. You've more than earned it. >> > >> > Isao Tomita is one of the musicians that I only discovered >> > all-too-recently. I eagerly caught up with his discography, and my >> > favourite work of his is the Planets suite. Will be listening to that >> > today. >> >> I met his version of Pictures At An Exhibition while I was in high >> school. I was studying that piece on piano with my piano teacher. >> >> According to the Wikipedia article, his vinyl version of The Planets is >> "rare". >> >> I have both of those on original vinyl, now just need to get my >> turntable working again. > > The reason the first release is so rare is that Holt's granddaughter > kicked up > a stink, claiming it was an 'abomination'. RCA decided it wasn't important > enough to fight so just withdrew it. It disappeared off the shelves just > before > I could get to a record shop to buy it (having heard a friend's copy). It > then > remained in limbo for very many years :( > > Just because I happened to have a rather nice half-track stereo Brenell at > the > time didn't mean I was going to take a copy - oh no :) He did things very early, when the technology was in its infancy. The music and interpretations he created were always in very good taste -- and very very hard to do at the time. He was a true pioneer whose memory deserves the highest respect. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
