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In Reply to: RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) posted by DrChaos on July 2, 2012 at 17:41:34:
"more than Jazz yes, but there's a whole lot good musicians can do with it.
You may have to listen bit more, but soon you hear the difference between a great perfomrance and an average one."Agreed. What I had written was too narrow and didn't express the idea as well as I would have liked... "classical requires the player to serve the score rather than the score to be a guideline for improvisation." One of those times where I stared at it for a while and settled on an incomplete thought.
Your link to the Grieg performance was as you described. A bad sounding recording of a smoking performance. Too bad too. A decent example of a performance in search of reasonable way to enjoy it.
The first time I ever got hooked on anything 'classial' was upon hearing the grand harpsichord solo from the Bandenbergs over a clock radio, of all things. Completely amazing. I was transfixed where I sat and allowed it to cause me to be late for work. The level of intensity matched anything I had ever heard. I am not entirely sure what people are trying to say when they call a piece of equipment musical. That harpsichord solo was musical in spades. Any given DAC, preamp or what-not ... not really. IMHO, of course.
I'm not sure why people who love music would throw out whole genres of it. There's a great deal to respect about the classical disciplines. Discipline being the key word here. Not too many kids starting a garage quintet out there. The classical culture has a fairly defined way that you grow up into it. But go out and buy a Stratocaster with a whammy bar and you're in business. I wonder how many of us play music as opposed to listening alone? That is a whole different kind of joy that no rig can give you.
I admit that I prefer modern music and mostly look to that to satisfy my current appetites. I also know that my tastes will evolve over time. If I were to make a comparison of music to literature then classical would be the novel and popular the short story. Only poetry is a common part of poular that can be as important as the melody. Either can be tedious or glorious. For some reason just thought of Chinese revolutionary opera as a fine example of tedious. Along with Madonna's, Like a Virgin. I had that stuck in my head one afternoon and it wasn't pleasant. All because of a church choral group at a mall. After they had finished their show a few of the girls got together on the side to harmonize on said song. They did a great job of it and I suffered for several hours because it kept popping up in my mind after that. This was a bit disturbing to me.
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- RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) - Emsquare 06:33:00 07/03/12 (1)
- RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) - Raymond Leggs 08:29:27 07/03/12 (0)
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