[107123] in Cypherpunks
Re: Serialism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Sat Jan 2 14:42:49 1999
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 14:23:45 -0500
To: ash@autoloop.com, spooth@qth.net, cryptography@c2.net,
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901011750480.22153-100000@ouch.Oof.NET>
Reply-To: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
Apparently someone has fallen for a musical joke (purveyed by musical
luddites I am sure ;-)
see:
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa062998.htm
Jay
At 05:52 PM 1/1/99 -0500, ash@autoloop.com wrote:
>
>SERIALISM EXPOSED!
>
>Composer Webern was Double Agent for Nazis
>
>By Heinrich Kincaid
>
>BERLIN, GERMANY (AP) - Recent admissions by an ex-Nazi official living
>in Argentina have confirmed what some musicologists have suspected for
>years: that early twentieth century German composer Anton Webern and
>his colleagues devised the so-called "serial" technique of music to
>encrypt messages to Nazi spies living in the United States and
>Britain.
>
