Agreed. It is my humble opinion that it has gotten it's due and we should move on.
> > From: Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/04/11 Mon PM 05:49:12 EDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Finale] ot; the "launching pad" > > On 11 Apr 2005, at 5:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PS - I don't care if he belived that only crosseyed franciscan monks > > with eleven toes made the best composers > > Well, neither do I, when it comes to his music, but being a good > composer doesn't mean you're necessarily a good judge of what makes a > good composer. > > Come now, in the quoted comment, Brahms was full of shit, and since > Raymond Horton nonetheless quoted him approvingly, David was quite > right to call him out on that. > > If Brahms had said "No Jew has ever been or will be a great composer" > or "No African has ever been or will be a great composer" or "No woman > has ever been or will be a great composer" I would sincerely hope that > it would be relatively uncontroversial to point out that he was > completely full of shit. > > - Darcy > ----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brooklyn, NY > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
