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In Reply to: "are you still buying new recordings of standard works?" Me, no. I've learned my lesson. posted by clarkjohnsen on April 11, 2007 at 10:37:34:
He wrote an article in The New Criterion called "Who's Good?" where he did a run-through currently active of musicians whom he considers worthy. amongst conductors he wrote, "there is one indisputably great conductor in the world today: James Levine. He has no weaknesses, no gaps; he can conduct anything, with supreme understanding and musicality."But I can't let you off that easily. In the same article he said, "The music world is inordinately affected by nostalgia. The past was always golden, and the present is more like tin...Sometimes the present is, indeed, tin (and tin will be preponderant in any age). But there is much gold about, and part of musical awareness is to be...well, aware of that."
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"But I can't let you off that easily. In the same article he said, "The music world is inordinately affected by nostalgia. The past was always golden, and the present is more like tin...Sometimes the present is, indeed, tin (and tin will be preponderant in any age). But there is much gold about, and part of musical awareness is to be...well, aware of that."How true...I just wish more orchestras will be bold enough to go in search of some present-day gold, rather than a constant regurgitation of past gold, it will certainly keep them from going stale and boring.
Music making the painting, recording it the photograph
Can't be many of us. You would also like Chronicles.Where you located (just curious)?
...if I remember correctly. At times it rises to real greatness. It's cultural criticism is consistently good, and at times inspiring. My only beef with it is its blindness to the faults of the political right, but it's easy enough to ignore the ideological rants when they show up. I'll take a look at Chronicles. I really would be interested in some more good writing.I'm from New York. I've been told that we're unconscionably rude.
(How was that?)Here's the lead on Chronicles, to whose print edition I've subscribed for ten years:
http://chroniclesmagazine.org/
And from an article just found, currently at the top of the page:
To be fair to Imus, he did not say anything about blacks that blacks do not say about each other, constantly, in comedy routines and in their so-called music. It is amusing to hear the smug denunciations of NPR newsreaders who routinely laud the artistic genius of rap artists and movie directors. Imus’s offensive little rap about the Rutgers women was in fact lifted from Spike Lee. Why isn’t Spike Lee drummed out of Hollywood? For the same reason that pious liberals have shown no reluctance to appear as guests on Imus’s show. None of them were deterred by his years of vilifying women, Christians, homosexuals, and Jews.
But when a white guy repeats Spike Lee on the air, he becomes a sacrificial victim.
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