Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>-----Original Message----- >From: Pete Su [mailto:psu@esgear.com] > >I pretty much agree with what Mr. Bennet has said. >In the same vein, I'd note that a lot of what we now call >"great classical" >music was written off in its time as incomprehensible piffle. A reviewer at the debut of a new work reported the next day in the newspaper that "Now it can truly be said that there is music which stinks in the ear." The work in question was the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Some stink! OTOH, it is evident to even the most casual observer that all classical music composed since, say, 1960 is incomprehensible piffle, right? >:-( > >This does not mean that the stuff that's hard to understand >isn't crap. All >it means is that some of it might be good if you know how to >look at it. :) Just like any human endeavour, most of it actually is crap; it's just that you need the benefit of hindsight to figure out which are the good bits. And, just like in politics, history is written by the winners... Paul Chefurka