In Reply to: Bizarre twist in musical taste (long) posted by Teresa on July 1, 2012 at 01:59:53:
Perhaps instead of disposing of those recordings you might opt for archiving those that mean something to you. For the reason that the palette tends to change over time.I feel much as you describe about classical and find much of it no longer very interesting. Too rigid in form and it deviates from the point about music that I find endearing to begin with. I have no doubt that if I played 2nd cello that I might feel different about that. However I would rather play bass for David Byrne or Beck Hanson as I just think it would be much more fun. I thought something Wynton Marsalis said was pretty interesting in that shifting between playing jazz to classical required a period of purifiation to do it. (I'm paraphrasing of course) IMHO, classical requires the player to serve the score rather than the score to be a guideline for improvisation.
I decline to be dismissive towards classical era music as it is so ingrained in western musical expression. And I still have a deep regard for a select number of works. Bach and Beethovan changed the course of music. So did the Beatles. The passion and the spirit for musical expression is no less now than it has ever been. It is also been built on what has come before.
Edits: 07/02/12
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