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From: parker@psuvax1.UUCP (Bruce Parker)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: The Trout Quintet Gotcha!
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 21:10:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 21:10:16 1985
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It's pretty pathetic when folks don't even know when a piece
from the Top Forty of classical music is over.  It speaks loudly
of why we who love new music shouldn't care a whit for the turkeys
who insist on listening to nothing but old music.  These folks do not
go to concerts to listen to a work -- they go to have their ears
massaged by friendly familiar sounds.  They go to be seen by their
rich friends.  They could care less about anything but the trappings
of art.  They do not want to think.

This is a most curious situation because all too often one hears
the argument that "popular music is too banal;  classical music is
for people who think".  My experience has been that the most close-minded
unthinking people are the ones who favor only classical music,
especially singers who've gone the route of conservatory training.
"Music died with Schubert" indeed!

-- 
Bruce Parker
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