Re: Why do you like Mozart's music?

"SG" <SGG217@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Michael Schaffer wrote:
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>> And probably [you've read] nothing or
>> not much else about historical performance practice.
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> <yawn> Yeah, whatever calms your complexes.
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>> it's precisely about the fact that we don't know everything about the
>> music just from looking at it in its notated form without understanding
>> what that notation actually shows and what it doesn't blah-blah
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> It is the utter banality of such truisms (exposed as if the recipe of
> hot-dog would have just been invented) that makes discussing with
> pompous semidocts such as Schaffer not as much challenging as
> unbearably boring. His believing against all evidence that he's told
> David Gable anything he didn't already know is amusing, though.


Unfortunately, in David Gable's case, the Lord may bless him, by announcing
to the world he has given 50 hearings to even BEGIN to understand the
claptrap that is Carter, obviously has had the affect of addling his brain.
He seems to think that discussing Carter and Boulez on the one hand,
together with the comic book operetta type stuff he discusses on the other,
either (a) makes him an old-fashioned simpleton who likes to believe he is
also *in* with the avant garde (however defunct they now are), or (b) his
pretense to liking ridiculous musical complexity, for the sheer sake of
complexity, (an elitist trait exhibited by those who wish they had studied
nuclear physics but couldn't), is tempered by his deep levelling humanity in
lowering himself to those that might attend New Year concert boredoms, acted
out in Wien, on a yearly basis.

I think Michael has a real problem on his hands. Don't you?

For David, if a thousand monkeys were given 20 years to pound unceasingly on
a multitude of electronic keyboards, and the most intelligible 60 minutes
extracted, he would, if told it was a piece by Carter, still give the piece
50 hearings, and then pronounce he was beginning to see the light, or maybe
hadn't quite fitted a suitable algorithm.

What hope, therefore, that he cannot comprehend a piece by Bach, HIP, or
otherwise.
<~>

Ray H
Taree


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