De gustibus non est disputandum. I’m sure that’s been said many times in this necrothread.
It’s a big world, surely with room enough for those who love classical music in an aural museum setting (as I do), for those who want to shake the form into modernity (as I have at times), and those who simply don’t like it (as I don’t in some cases).
Last night, I listened to Maynard Ferguson’s Live at Jimmy’s, MF Horn 4 and 5. I bought the vinyl record when it was new.
Four nights ago, I listened to Yes playing Close to the Edge, also on vinyl that I bought when new.
Three nights ago, I listened to Wynton Marsalis’s Hot House Flowers, a CD I bought new.
Two nights ago, I listened to Ralph Vaughan Williams’s masterpiece Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and got emotional about it. I bought that CD when it was new, of the many that are available.
Tonight, it will probably be Dream Theater.
There are genres I don’t much like, but there’s so much I do like that it just doesn’t seem necessary to talk about the stuff I pass by. Those who like that stuff will judge me for it, because music is emotional on several levels and we can’t think too rationally about it. I don’t need that and neither do they.
Say what you will about symphonic orchestral, choral, and chamber music, we are still talking about it (with passion) in some cases 400 years after it was composed, and we know it by its composers more than by its performers. Some other genres will last that long, and some composers will live on with that level of familiarity. Most won’t.
Rick “wondering at how easily we use the word ‘hate’” Denney