PLATT
>How true! By comparison . . . well there really is no comparison of great
>classical music to the rot being passed as "music" today. The gap on
>the scale of Quality is simply too great.
RICK
Oh god! I'm not suprised to hear a quip like this dribble from the
mouth of some 70+ year old-fogey. There's always some pretentious guy who
thinks that if you don't need a conductor, orchestra, tuxedos and opera
glasses, then it's, somehow, lesser music.
Sure some classical music is good. But alot of it is rhythmless,
self-indulgent, mastrabatory garbage written for virtuosos whose work puts
most of the world to sleep. And FYI Platt, there's plenty of
Modern-Classical "rot" out there being passed off as music.
Truth is, there's good and bad in all genres of music. Nothing
Beethoven ever did has impressed me more than 'Sgt. Pepper.' Moonlight
Sonata is beautiful, but so is 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
The Quality of Classical music isn't any greater than the Quality of
music being produced today... it's simply a discrepency of time-periods,
styles, and the tastes of audiences. Quality is in the interaction of
subject and object (and in the interaction of the music and the listener).
If you think that today's music has less Quality perhaps its just your ear
that's lacking.
Dismissing modern music as "rot" while exalting the classics of old in
the same breath reveals your outdated, reactionary, and totally static mode
of thinking as clear as crystal.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks, and you apparently can't play
him new music either.
rick
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