Friday, September 5, 2008
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Honey I'm going to Roy's!

Chef Roy Yamaguchi of Roy's reminds me of Josquin Des Prez (c.1450-1521).  Des Prez was a musical genius, a visionary thinker, a person who defied convention to create a new fusion of sounds which elevated his craft to which some may call sublime.  Back in Des Prez's days, church music was just simply chants (Gregorian), all monotones.  Nothing wrong with chants, it served its purpose, mainly to teach scriptures, but after a while I would imagine it to be, well? monotonous.  Des Prez must have certainly recognized this and to his credit, he challenge the status quo (the church) of the day and introduced harmonies and melodies which really kicked things up a notch, thus ushering in a new era of pious music, baroque to be more precise.

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