This was also reported in yesterday's NYTimes, and on Monday's Op-Ed page of same.

----- Original Message -----
From: Stewart Mason 
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:41 pm
Subject: Re: What IS influence, anyway?
To: audities@smoe.org

> There's a link to a story about the confession at the top of 
> this 
> page, under Latest News:
> 
> http://www.pristineclassical.com/HattoHoax.html
> 
> I hadn't heard of any of this! Interesting story.
> 
> S
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Bennett" 
> To: 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: What IS influence, anyway?
> 
> 
> > Stewart --
> >
> > Are you a Joyce Hatto fan? She was an undistinguished British 
> > piainst who died last year, who was suddenly discovered. A 
> slew of 
> > recordings that seemed to establish her as a true talent. 
> Guess 
> > what - it was a hoax.
> >
> > It unraveled when someone put in a Hatto CD in his computer, 
> and 
> > iTunes indicated it was a different artist. The two discs 
> were 
> > compared -- and they were identical. Her husband admitted 
> that he 
> > committed the fraud so that his wife's life could end on a 
> high 
> > note.
> >
> > This is post about the fraud -- I couldn't find a link to the 
> wire 
> > story on the admission:
> >
> > http://www.stephenpollard.net/003148.html
> >
> > Mike Bennett
> >
> >
> >
> > Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mrhonorama
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: "Stewart Mason" 
> >>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
> >>To: 
> >>Subject: Re: What IS influence, anyway?
> >>Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:02:12 -0500
> >>
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Smith" 
> >>>So I guess I wonder - there being a good number of musicians 
> here, 
> >>>and
> >>>plenty more informed listeners - is there a standard that 
> says if I 
> >>>can't
> >>>hear it, it's not really an influence? Or can influences be 
> more or 
> >>>less
> >>>invisible to the listener of the finished product?
> >>
> >>I think so, or at least so buried that you don't recognize 
> them 
> >>until the artist says they're there. I'm sure I've used this 
> >>example here before, but I once read an interview with Brian 
> Eno 
> >>where he said that when he was in school, he was addicted to 
> his 
> >>parents' Ray Conniff albums, particularly the wordless vocal 
> >>choruses. I wouldn't have made that connection on my own (fan 
> >>though I am of Conniff myself), but remembering that quote in 
> the 
> >>context of hearing, say, "Taking Tiger Mountain" or "On Some 
> Faraway 
> >>Beach," I just think, "Well, yes, of course."
> >>
> >>What bugs me is when I can hear nothing BUT the artist's 
> influences, 
> >>especially when it seems like an artist is influenced solely 
> by a 
> >>certain set of stylistically similar bands. I don't mind when 
> you 
> >>can baldly hear an artist's influences IF he's combining 
> several 
> >>different styles into one whole (the High Llamas' blend of 
> Brian 
> >>Wilson, Steely Dan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ennio Morricone and 
> Mouse 
> >>On Mars, for example), but when you can listen to an album and 
> hear 
> >>that the songwriter's influences stretch all the way from the 
> >>Beatles to Badfinger, with a short detour into ELO, I'm just 
> not 
> >>interested.
> >>
> >>S
> >>
> >
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