Dirty Projectors at the Phil
The Dirty Projectors are playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday with the LA Philharmonic. Who is excited about that? We are. We all are very excited about that, yourself included. In an interview with LA Weekly, Dave Longstreth from the Dirty Projectors provided my new favorite quote:
Longstreth says it took him no time to assemble a comprehensive list of pieces he wanted to hear the Phil perform, but the challenge was finding music that fit the specs of the orchestra.
“It was difficult for me. I kept being, like, ””Yo! Let”s do some late-”70s Philip Glass stuff, where the winds are amplified and this shit is just fucking terse!” ”
Hahaha. Anyone who can make Philip Glass sound gangsta is okay in my book. “Yo! Gimme some of that Philip Glass business and make it fucking terse!”
Ever see "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread"? *That* shit is gangsta.
1No idea what you''re talking about but So fun to read!
2Ha! I don't know the Dirty Projectors at all but I agree that this is a great quote. I looked up the word terse, to see what he was getting at, and found out that it can mean both "smoothly elegant" and "abrupt, brusque." How is this possible? Is it one of those screwy words like cleave and biannually? Are online dictionaries bunk? (And no, I didn't see "ant." next to the elegant one.)
Anyways, cool quote. Taught me something. I think.
3I'll be damned, merriam-webster.com agrees, and even has the "smoothly elegant" one as definition one: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terse
Of course, that might be what you looked at originally, so not much "agreeing." The rest of the interwebs (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:terse) seem to prefer "to the point" or "neatly short" to this "smoothly elegant" idea.
In any case, I am now more prepared for the GRE Verbal section, should I ever choose to go back to grad school. Thanks!
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