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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: Should I? Maybe not. Ah, why not. posted by opinionated on April 30, 2007 at 12:06:36:
...who is not a Beethoven fan. His taste in this area does not mean in any way, shape or form that he isn't or can't be a fine composer in his own right.There are always going to be people who genuinely don't like even the most widely admired composers and players. That's just the way life is. And of course there are plenty of people who are basically disinterested in having any intimate relationship with music as a whole. I'm nuts for most of what emerged in the late 18th and early 19thC but don't care for much Mozart. Does that prove I lack musical discernment? Hardly.
To judge somebody because they don't appreciate what you most value semms to me to be narcissistic, which is the sin for which Metheny and Mehldau are being condemned. Although most of what Metheny does is not my cup of tea I truly admired his "Song X" and the concert I saw with him and Ornette many years back was a joy.
Anyway what's all this crap about it mattering in some moral sense who's "better" and who isn't?
My interpretation of the cited quote is that the writer proves his own narraow-mindedness in the guise of critiquing others.
Elliot Berlin
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