In Reply to: RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) posted by josh358 on July 5, 2012 at 06:18:46:
Yuo get into a loaded question when you seek to rank the quality of art. It's my contention that the talent is no less now than then. It's that it us expressed in a different way. The masters that we lament were, in part, a product of their culture. Can you possibly imagine the Handel's Hallelujah Chorus being penned and performed as a new work today? I just wonder how that would be received? Who's to say what would have come of Beethovan being born as a contemporary of our times? I certainly don't forsee another Leonardo Da Vinci or a Nikola Tesla. Tesla might even be an alternative example of what we may be discussing here. I have no taste for making less what these people did. It was glorious. We should be inspired by brilliance when we recognize it.
I find myself searching for some sort of advice that I can offer that would make you feel better about this but I just don't have any. Sorry. As a futile effort I will leave you with the relevant words of the Poet...
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.
Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.
Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
John Lennon
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Follow Ups
- RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) - Emsquare 18:12:56 07/05/12 (1)
- RE: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) - josh358 18:36:39 07/05/12 (0)