Broad/narrow-minded

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

For the sake of balance

SOME of my chums are doing this today

http://www.3choirs.org/event/dream-of-gerontius

and this work of sublime genius tomorrow

http://www.3choirs.org/event/turangalila-symphonie

Can one go out and buy an ondes martenot, or is like a bass oboe - only one or two available?

Edit: I can answer my own question.

http://www.thomasbloch.net/new_ondes_martenot

[french frank]

Tolerance personified, Gongers…

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Tolerance personified, Gongers…

I thought MrGG's response was ever so slightly skewed.

[french frank]

I thought MrGG's response was ever so slightly skewed.

That would make two examples of 'linguistic games' then Very much OT.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I thought MrGG's response was ever so slightly skewed.

[Mary Chambers]

For the sake of balance

SOME of my chums are doing this today

http://www.3choirs.org/event/dream-of-gerontius

and this work of sublime genius tomorrow

http://www.3choirs.org/event/turangalila-symphonie

I must be broad-minded, then, because I like both. What a relief

[Conchis]

I've been reading the late Alec Guinness's published diaries (a poor substitute for his unpublished ones, but they were burnt at his own request): by the standards of most people on here, he was exceptionally narrow-minded when it came to music, being dismissive of the Turangalila Symphony and also of Medtner's chamber music. He seems to have liked Beethoven's String Quartets and Puccini's operas. A typical old buffer, then.

[doversoul1]

For the sake of balance

SOME of my chums are doing this today

http://www.3choirs.org/event/dream-of-gerontius

and this work of sublime genius tomorrow

http://www.3choirs.org/event/turangalila-symphonie

Balance? That’s just one set. What’s on the other side? Monteverdi? Purcell?

[MrGongGong]

Balance? That’s just one set. What’s on the other side? Monteverdi? Purcell?

No, they are the same "side" (if you choose to look at things like that)

Ryoji Ikeda
Sunn O)))

[doversoul1]

Ah, I see what you mean. (I think).

I have a good friend who, in her own words, ‘love classical music’. When she talks about it, I keep my mouth shut (wishing she would stop) or she won’t want to see me again.

Am I narrow minded or broad minded? Or a snob?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Am I narrow minded or broad minded? Or a snob?

Just a diplomat?

[Conchis]

Ah, I see what you mean. (I think).

I have a good friend who, in her own words, ‘love classical music’. When she talks about it, I keep my mouth shut (wishing she would stop) or she won’t want to see me again.

Am I narrow minded or broad minded? Or a snob?

That's one of the reasons I NEVER talk about my hobby to non-believers.

I made the mistake once of admitting that I liked opera. The person I was talking to responding with: 'Ah, I saw an opera once. It was called The Nutcracker.'

I learned my lesson after that.

[MrGongGong]

That's one of the reasons I NEVER talk about my hobby to non-believers.

"HOBBY"

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah, I see what you mean. (I think).

I have a good friend who, in her own words, ‘love classical music’. When she talks about it, I keep my mouth shut (wishing she would stop) or she won’t want to see me again.

Am I narrow minded or broad minded? Or a snob?

You can't possibly be such a champion of baroque and pre-Baroque music, wanting others to share your enjoyment, and at the same time be a snob, ds. To be so would be a contradiction in terms!

[doversoul1]

Ah, but I am very selective as to whom I pour out my enthusiasm. I am not sharing it with those who are clearly not interested, or more precisely, those who are (in my opinion) ignorant. Now this does sound terribly narrow minded and snobbish, does it not?