Music is a mystery for people who play it, write it, listen to it, and write about it. The only thing I can really do when I try to say something about music is assume.
Friday, January 24, 2014
Thank You Andy Doe
Slate now has an (uninformed and shallow) article about the death rattle of Classical Music. I'm not linking to it because you can get so much more out of reading Andy Doe's response to it over at Proper Discord.
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It is worth noting that the measures used by the silly Slate article are 1) materialistic, and therefore utterly capitalist on the one hand, and 2) populist on the other. The pretense of the "modern" art critic has become a matter of cognitive dissonance used merely in service to gain attention. A perfect example was the "young" Boulez saying old music should be destroyed and the "old" Boulez realizing the "young" Boulez was referring to him. Bach et al will be around for the next centuries as they have been for the past, while every pipsqueak and popsqueak Justin Bieber will be a ho-hum barnacle on the history of musical drivel. Judging by the more than 600 comments, Slate has once again proven itself shallow. Hurray that someone is playing a classical concert in your corner of the woods! Vanhoenacker probably couldn't read the score much less know it.
I am active as a composer, a violist, a violinist, a recorder player, and as a teacher. I began my professional musical life as a flutist, and spent a lot of quality time as a baroque flutist, but I no longer have my baroque flute. Now my modern flute spends most of its time tucked away in a drawer, while my violin, viola, and my viola d'amore are often tucked under my chin.
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It is worth noting that the measures used by the silly Slate article are 1) materialistic, and therefore utterly capitalist on the one hand, and 2) populist on the other. The pretense of the "modern" art critic has become a matter of cognitive dissonance used merely in service to gain attention. A perfect example was the "young" Boulez saying old music should be destroyed and the "old" Boulez realizing the "young" Boulez was referring to him. Bach et al will be around for the next centuries as they have been for the past, while every pipsqueak and popsqueak Justin Bieber will be a ho-hum barnacle on the history of musical drivel. Judging by the more than 600 comments, Slate has once again proven itself shallow. Hurray that someone is playing a classical concert in your corner of the woods! Vanhoenacker probably couldn't read the score much less know it.
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