Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!news-west.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!twister.columbus.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Matanya Ophee <[email protected]> Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.guitar Subject: Re: Christopher Parkening Video - "We Thank Thee, Lord, We Thank Thee" Message-ID: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 51 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:22:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.26.140.157 X-Complaints-To: [email protected] X-Trace: twister.columbus.rr.com 1047421347 24.26.140.157 (Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:22:27 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:22:27 EST Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Columbus [email protected] (William D Clinger) wrote: >I owe Matanya an apology! He did not ignore the existence of >this videotape, as I alleged in my previous message. He did >respond some five days later, on 21 March 1995, 07:12:10 PST. >In that message, Matanya wrote: > >> very interesting. ANy chance of getting a copy of this video? I'd >> love to see this for myself. Not that I doubt your word, but if >> indeed true, I should really apologise to the guy, shouldn't I? > >I'd like to buy a video of that apology. I'll make you a deal: you get me a copy of the Parkening video, for which I will pay all expenses, and I will send you, for free, a video of my apology. Of course, there is no way I will apologize for having drawn attention to the Born Again Christian propaganda on the Sacred Music LP. That's a gross violation of at least 2 or 3 Commandments, and an insult to many guitarists who do not share in CP's devotions. >It is a whole lot >harder to believe that Matanya could act like an honest man >than to believe that Parkening could play what he recorded. I sympathize with your difficulties. I also note that since you have not attended a Parkening live concert in recent times, as I have 4 years ago in Charleston, you can only answer the question of whether Parkening can play, TODAY, what he recorded 20 years ago, by an act of faith. I can answer it by this: http://www.orphee.com/review/charles.htm#Parkening As I said to Sharon, I will to travel to any point to observe Parkening, again, in a live concert, where he would perform the Prelude from the violin partita. I will even put up with his homilies to Jesus, who, after all, was born only 8 miles from where _I_ was born, i.e., my next door neighbor. Would you? Psst.... still enjoying this? Matanya Ophee Editions Orphe'e, Inc., 1240 Clubview Blvd. N. Columbus, OH 43235-1226 614-846-9517 fax: 614-846-9794 http://www.orphee.com