On 1 Apr 2006, at 00:41, Robert Patterson wrote:
Was your father impressed with your taste in popular music in the
60s?
Interestingly, it was my father (b. 1927) who introduced me to Sgt.
Peppers. He had read a review of it on an airplane and was so
intrigued he went out and bought it. My only other Beatles exposure
at the time was a 45 single with I Wanna Hold Your Hand and I Saw
Her Standing There. We wore out that record *and* my father's Sgt.
Peppers. (I was about 10 at the time Sgt. Peppers came out.)
I think your father may have been rather exceptional. My own father
(b. 1903) was a broad-minded man, open to new ideas in most areas of
life. But he regarded jazz as an abomination. It seemed to him to fly
in the face of everything he held dear about the music he loved,
which was classical music up until about 1900.
He hated 20th century composers like Bartok and Stravinsky because
their music was dissonant and lacked melody. In vain I tried to
persuade him that Bach, who he loved, used dissonance extensively,
and that Bartok and Stravinsky were both great melodists.
In his old age he made an effort to embrace new music, and eventually
declared that he quite enjoyed a performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Joseph and the Coat of Many Colours. Oh how I wished he would revert
to his old curmudgeonly self!
John
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