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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: Fine article on Salonen and the L.A. Phils in current New Yorker posted by Thornhill on April 25, 2007 at 14:46:12:
Over the years I've read the New Yorker (mostly for the political commentary!), I've never been very impressed by Alex Ross's apparent knowledge of classical music. Moreover, his writing often seems surfacey, overly influenced by pop culture, and almost never insightful.In addition to the points Mr. Thornhill makes, I find Ross's smug references to "people who use their brains more" (supposedly attributed to Salonen himself in reference to certain listeners' eagerness to seek out new music, no matter what the quality, on symphony programs) to be both lame and cheap.
(BTW, as you may know from my previous posts, I like a lot of the work that Salonen has done in LA.)
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