Comments on: The New Magazine is Out (and the reviews by me are great!)

By: KT

KT — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:55:23 +0000

I’m not sure that you have your history right on Stravinsky…while it is fun to think those things, there was also a history of audience discontent in Paris at the time, particularly with the owner of the concert hall and Sergei Diagalev, head of the Ballets Russe (Le Sacre was accompanied by a ballet). Reportedly, the hall was hot and stuffy and the audience had felt cheated by a canceled performance earlier in the week, so they came ready to complain, so to speak.

There was confusion at the premiere – apparently the group did the whole thing over, as the cheers and jeers (some people tried to cheer louder than the complainers) masked the music, so they did it again.

The music itself was well received, at least by professional critics, and it became a sort of instant classic, playing around the world in just a few short years. I’m not sure that a confusing piece of music that caused people to resort to fisticuffs would get such a warm worldwide response…

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:07:49 +0000

Thanks so much, C. and Liz… I know the staff worked hard on it, so it’s very much appreciated. As for the best of the blog piece in the magazine, we just wanted to make sure that more people who read the magazine knew about the blog. It’s odd how a lot of people who read the blog don’t know we have a magazine, and vice versa, so we were hoping to change that trend!

By: C.Bukowski.

C.Bukowski. — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:01:59 +0000

As an insomniac I personally enjoyed each and every cure to insomnia, I am not sure which one I shall try first……
(I also enjoyed the little cap’n crunch tid bit, that was most interesting)
The newest (and the first issue I have not had to run to a borders to buy, thanks to my uncle buying me a subscription!) issue gave me some topics for the weekly conversation I have with my brother. I usually have nothing really interesting to go over with him, we have NOTHING in common and before he joined the Air Force we hardly spoke. Now I got to discuss the “next generation of killer robots” with him, his personal favorite is the predator, I am quite partial to the X-47 Bombers. Thank you for that one, for once we had a discussion that interested both of us!

I must say I was a little disappointed in the product placement article, I mean it was interesting and I loved it, just some of the information could already be found in one of your blogs. :/

all in all, I am soooo happy to finally have a Mental_Floss subscription of my very own! I have waited almost two years, asking every Christmas, Hanukkah and birthday. Who would have thought Passover would be the holiday to bring the magazine to my doorstep (thought I have a feeling the manischewitz might have influenced my uncle handing me his credit card and telling me to order it). Thanks for writing such a great magazine!
:D

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:07:23 +0000

This was a fantastic issue. I devoured it! I’m going to start rationing myself to one article a day.