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In Reply to: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) posted by Teresa on July 1, 2012 at 01:59:53:
There is a very interesting passage I read in one of the books on musicology from my library (sorry, can't recall the name of the book off the top of my head). In the book, the author describes how he went on an expedition to some god forsaken region of northern Greece, armed with a tape recorder. He was looking for indigenous local musicians. He lucked out and found one young shepherd, who was apparently an amazingly talented musician. The author befriended him, and made some recordings of his amazing playing.
Then, later on, as the author was planning to return home, he decided to take this young musicians with him all the way to Vienna. He wanted to expose him to the western music. So he took him to one concert hall, to listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. After the brilliant performance was over, the author asked the young shepherd what did he think about the music. The shepherd replied: "Nice, but overly simplistic!" (rim shot!)
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