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Subject: Re: Leonard Bernstein
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Date: 23 Oct 90 09:55:05 GMT
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In article <942@heurikon.heurikon.com>, gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) writes:
>                  I think that it was also the most explicit display
> of violence and energy that I'd ever seen a conductor do, which always
> left me wondering about whether they might actually do that about all
> that ponderous, boring symphonic stuff. 
	Classical music lovers (people who realize that that "ponderous,
boring, symphonic stuff" isn't) can only shake their heads at this.  While
it wouldn't be fair to say that I like the Kinks as much as the next person,
I *do* like "You really got me", but I can only ask you to take my word that
the symphonic repertoire is full of pieces that have more energy and violence,
if that's what you want, than anything by the Kinks, X, Black Flag, etc.  It's
just done differently, within a different framework.  It's as hard to get pop
music lovers to listen to classical music as it is to get most classical folks
to home in on Mahler.  All I can say is that if you take the time you'll get
the reward.
	As far as Lenny goes, it's a great shame that he died so young, but it's
an even greater shame that he could have been alive today had he not smoked 
cigarettes.  It has always been a remarkable fact of the human condition that
people who are especially talented in one area have a corresponding blind spot
somewhere else.
-- 
Bill Robertson   "Lots of people can sing louder and longer than Elvis, too,
                  but who cares?"
                                                       Eval Knievel