--- Valence Valence <valence10@hotmail.com> wrote: >
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 rythem less,
> 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.
>
Platt says:
... 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.
--------------
Seeing as music is only a matter of taste, your
comment says nothing. In saying nothing, it says
something. Yes ... there is rot somewhere.
André
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