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From: gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: reponse to mr. ellis
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Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 09:29:29 EDT
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Hey, Karl: I think that there's a sense in which you and Michael
are *somewhat* in agreement, as I've been reading your postings.
I think he means DEAD in the way that the theologians of the
60's did when they solemnly declared the "death" of G-d. Y'know:
dead as in irrelevant. Mr. Ellis has a pretty similar set of views
about the current state of *popular* music as well...he demonstrates
an admirable consistency, which is occaisionally less than clear
from the postings, and the firestorming from the classical backlash
(one thing those classical types know how to do is hurl thunderbolts!)

Perhaps one area in which you could agree would have to do with the way
that high art feeds low art and vice versa. Y'know...Carnatic classical
stuff borrowed by Phil Glass which gets borrowed/admired by Bowie/Eno
which winds up on some indie minimal thrash band from Carmel. I think
that part of the dividing here would have something to do with asking
yourself if that transfer of method/structure/style is a descent into
the bowels of *popular* bowdlerization, or....

One candle lighting another. It's just that the relevance is less obvious
...How do we change that? Perhaps by finding it where it is and pointing
it out.

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