On Oct 16, 2004, at 1:44 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Mark D Lew wrote:
On Oct 15, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Jane Frasier wrote:I have been asked by some non-musician friends what the definition of classical music is. How is it different from non-classical music. I have not been able to come up with a very good answer.If you expect to make money on it, it's pop; if you expect to lose money on it, it's classical.
mdl
(paraphrasing Michael Tippett)
Possibly the only way to define classical music is to begin with a list of composers from which classical music has descended, naming sample composers along the way.
Or how about this:
Classical music is music you have to get dressed up all fancy to go sit in a concert hall for, where you don't applaud after the solos, don't applaud everytime the music stops, don't get up and dance, where they don't serve beer while it's being played,
I know it's begging the issue, but the old Boston Pops programs (in which "classical" music was played), were accompanied by the serving of beer. And, as I think about it, and re-beg my comment of a couple of days ago, when that orchestra switched from "classical" to pop, one of the percussionists always sat down at a trap set and provided the unvarying, pop beat which, I still believe, is one of the identifiers of pop music. And that makes me think of those recordings which came out several years ago of Mozart and Beethoven symphonies with the disco sound (ugh) ... the only significant difference between their "classical" renditions and the ever so popular recordings was the introduction of the previously mentioned rhythm section (and the typical octave-leaping, disco, bass line). I know, I know, Bolero ...
Dean
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Para m�, la m�sica es la respiraci�n de la vida y de Dios. Per me, la musica � l'alito di vita e del Dio. Pour moi, la musique est le souffle de la vie et de Dieu. F�r mich ist Musik der Atem des Lebens und des Gottes.
Dean M. Estabrook Director of Music St. Andrew Presbyterian Church Yuba City, CA
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