Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Can one imagine the world needing a pejorative term for someone who still has the temerity to profess pleasure upon hearing Bach or Beethoven? Paint me ein Alter Mann.
Dean
Well there may not be a pejorative term for someone who likes the music of his/her own times, but very often I've heard people speak with disdain when they say "Oh, you like MODERN music? I'm sorry."
What we don't need are pejorative terms to put anybody down who likes any music. We also don't need, however, people who close their ears to any music outside of specific periods, composers or artists and who de facto hate any other music.
I once knew a man who frequently declared that music had died with Mozart. All the while he played in a concert band and loved it, playing all sorts of music which was written long after Mozart had died. But try to put an orchestral work by Holst or Stravinsky on the radio and he would start swearing about all this modern music.
The musical world has no need for close-minded people.
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