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calimac Eight sentences about classical music I'd be happy never to read again from Matthew Guerrieri (via patioboe)
Gems. I will admit to having committed anniversary honors on dead composers (I did it just this week), but only as an excuse to call public attention to composers I was listening to yesterday and will be listening to again tomorrow. Otherwise, though, I've heard and loathe 'em all. Yes, I really have been told that I don't like what I like, and all the rest.
Gems. I will admit to having committed anniversary honors on dead composers (I did it just this week), but only as an excuse to call public attention to composers I was listening to yesterday and will be listening to again tomorrow. Otherwise, though, I've heard and loathe 'em all. Yes, I really have been told that I don't like what I like, and all the rest.
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Date: 2006-10-02 01:09 am (UTC)Context. At the Globe (original or reconstructed), I certainly would. Well, maybe not "as audiences boo Hook," because Claudius isn't a 2-dimensional villain the way Hook is. But certainly Shakespeare wrote with an active and responsive audience in mind.
The whole idea that art demands the audient's full and rapt attention is a modernist fallacy, birthed in the egoes of artists like Wagner and Hayden (his "Surprise" symphony was designed to deprive audients of a postprandial nap to which they certainly felt entitled).