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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems (really Mahler)
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 12:45:18 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 12:45:18 1985
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> >> 
> >> And I suppose we could also talk about the music of Mahler...
> >> 
> >> Music that has little or nothing to say, but spends hours doing it anyway.
> >
> > There are none so deaf as those who will not listen...
> >
> > Maybe you should learn the language!
> >
> >					Jeff Winslow
> 
> Now now now.... let's not be judgmental!  I spent a year and a half
> studying the Mahler symphonies... so you see I HAVE listened.  Too
> often it's just one theme after the other... on and on and on and...
> He could have said everything he wanted to have said in half the time.
> -- 
> 
> seismo!trwrdc!root				- Lord Frith
 
If *we* aren't going to be judgemental, why don't *you* word your opinions
this way:

"Music that has nothing to say to me." "It seems to me like just one theme
after another." "He could have said everything that I understand in half
the time."

I have no trouble understanding Mahler's music, both subjectively and
objectively (where I have studied it in this fashion). Each measure
brings something new, interesting and appropriate. And I am not easily
interested or entertained.

Now I can understand someone being turned off by his style (intricate and
emotional), although personally I love it. Are you sure that's not the
real reason you feel as you do?

				(no Lord) Jeff Winslow