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2023-03-18 08:04:00
Classical music needs to build not burn bridges
My post about Norman Lebrecht's 'dumb and dumber' attack on a non-classical genre and artist prompted several thoughtful comments from readers. Joe Shelby's response demands a post to itself, and the last two paragraphs should be studied carefully by everyone in the classical music industry. Here is his comment in full. Though I loved some of the 'standard' classical in the common realm works (the works on Fantasia, Beethoven's 5th, common elements from the Bugs Bunny cartoons like Pier Gynt's music that is almost every cartoon sunrise theme), my doorway to classical (and especially modern classical) wasn't any connection to Rock music, much as I was a fan of progressive rock like Yes and King Crimson. Rather, it was film music, particularly sci-fantasy (Star Wars, the Star Trek films, Rosenman's score for the Bakshi Lord of the Rings) that became my doorway. I wanted more like that. I wanted to know where […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-01-24 11:37:36
Here’s what Met staffers are being told about... The post The Met says its health-care fail was due to cyber-Hack appeared first on Slippedisc.
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