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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: Commonplace posted by layman on April 5, 2007 at 09:21:47:
and I DEFINITELY didn't mean to diminish the works of students as not being often either great or not worthy. My point was that the works of students will NOT grant them "a seat at the table" with the masters. In order for that to happen, they will need to keep plugging and build a corpus of masterworks over time. Oh, and they gotta eat. And, they can't rely on the church, or wealthy patrons, or government funding to help support them (like in the past). They, at least, need to get someone to actually PURCHASE some of their works, and I think that is harder now than ever before. Let's throw in the societal pressure associated with "earning a living" and the practical things beyond food, like owning a home and a car. Students live CHARMED LIVES. They are at the stage where they face much less economic pressure than they ever will going forward. It's heartening to know there are "thousands" out there. How many will persevere?"The public is capricious and slow to catch on." I agree, but at least in the old days they had a foundation of learning and exposure to the music to draw them in (eventually). So, the public, too, will need to persevere. Got confidence in that, do ya?:-)
It's gonna take a lot of love all around, I'd say!:-)
I take it you function in and around academia. This is off-topic, but -- much to my dismay as well -- that's another "bubble" that'll burst sooner or later. Not that I'm a fan of the following view, but it's looking more and more like the future on this blue dot will be more like a bitter dog-eat-dog jungle than Utopia. It is THAT view that makes me think of the word "dream" earlier. I didn't mean it in a cynical way, I meant it more as an embrace of your optimism facing a towering wave -- something I aspire to, but can barely sustain as I look at a reality that simply is not cooperating. I think our transcendal metaphysics is getting screwed up by temporal BS. Or, just maybe, it's always been the other way around, and the decline of high art is simply a leading indicator.
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- I appreciate your enthusiasm... - SE 10:03:25 04/05/07 (1)
- Legacies - layman 10:22:02 04/05/07 (0)
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