Ever Apologised for Your Love of Classical Music?
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Panjandrum
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Richard Tarleton
Asking for trouble at this time of day. Funnily enough she has asked this or something very like it before. I think she's an innocent, really.
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I've tried her twice and each time she was playing music I can't stand.
I apologise for trying
Thank heavens for my recording of Piers Burton-Page's piano music section from Saturday's CD Review"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Tapiola View PostAnd her reference to stroking JEG's "cantatas" has given me the creeps
"Come upstairs my dear, and I'll show you my canticles"
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostNot in my case to loving classical music - or most aspects of it - but I have described myself as a musical snob for my love of some classical music and most of jazz and blues.
As an unreconstructed lefty trying and failing to adjust to Postmodernist relativism I am interested in and in some instances love other musical genres too, but when it comes to pop and a lot of rock music I am more interested in them as manifestations of our time than actually liking much of what they have had to offer, seeing their product as mostly patronising, existing to reflect shallow mass socially engineered taste, coming from an ephemeral aesthetic directed to rapid turnover, rather than challenging and broadening the range of human feeling and perspective deserving and capable of musical and artistic expression.
But, given that several posters on this forum with clearly right-wing views might concur with the abovespoken, I sometimes wonder if this does make me a musical snob, or whether it offers me some meagre hope that we might all come to an agreement as to what constitutes civilisation, in the Kenneth Clarke sense.
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But some life enhancing, top quality stuff gets through. Alex Harvey, elvis costello, difford and tilbrook,radiohead to name just a few at random, are people who have made music of the highest quality, and enhanced the lives of true music lovers the world over. But the rock and pop industry just produces more and more bland nonsense, so other genres, such as folk, benefit from the energy and talent of young people.
Good example...todays young folk musicians don;t apologise for their involvement in a music that hails from the past... they celebrate their rediscovery of it.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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old khayyam
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