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To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (391)	10/18/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (3) of 3246

Ommisions Neil Armstrong It may be that from the grand perspective the ONLY significant accomplishment of this century is that humanity began the transition to an interplanetary and interstellar culture. And since Apollo 11, the American Space program has trod water. Contrast that with the huge interest in aviation after Lindberg. Lindberg was also enormously influential in Politics and business, and captured the public imagination worldwide in a way which only Elvis and the Beatles have managed to emulate. If you must have an astronaut hero - Jim Lovell would be my man. One should also consider Chuck Yaeger - who never even made it out. Frank Lloyd Wright The alternate architects on this list created forms that did little more than mimic machines where Wright left room for the people inside the building and melded it with nature outside. Nuts! Wrights Masterpiece, the Guggenheim, while a beautiful building is universilly considered useless as an art gallery - it's primary function. The Guggenheim building was envisioned a building that not only broke the rectilinear grid of Manhattan, but also shattered existing notions of what a museum could be. It certainly does that! It looks totally out of place in it's setting. Gropius and Meis van der Rohe were the product of the Bauhaus, perhaps the most influential school of design ever. The concept of 'form follows function' found it's true potential here. The Audi TT - one of the most striking cars for the new millenia openly celebrates its roots in the Bauhaus. Whether you like Le Cobusier or not, his influence on modern architecture cannot be denied, and is undoubtedly greater than Wrights. Any geodesic structure you come across, from Radar Domes to stadium sliding roofs to soccer balls owes its existence to Buckminster Fuller. George Gershwin Tell me another classical composer whose work you really love as an American. By which I mean, what other classical composer took the idioms of American jazz and blues music and used them to create timeless compositions that compare favorably with those of any other civilization that composed in the classical mode? Duke Ellington - and he is on the list. Why do we have such a desperate need to have an American composer on the list? We are being a parochial (maybe a tad jingoistic) are we not? And how can you compare Gershwin (or any 20th century composer) to Bach! Louis Armstrong. Ask someone who is a foreign music critic what American instrumentalist most influenced the world's popular music and his is the name you'll hear. Ask me the best musician of the last 100 years and I'll tell you it was Satch. Well - I'm foreign, so I half qualify. How about Miles Davis or Charley Parker? Robert Johnson? Satchmo was undoubtedly talented, but he is in tough company.

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