Well said, Andrew, JR
On 7/14/06 2:06 PM, "Andrew Stiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While I fully expected the Robert King posting (I had never heard of > him, BTW) to generate much discussion, I was absolutely astounded at > the form that discussion has taken, with nose-in-the-air sniffing about > "gossip" and "inappropriateness." > > I thought we'd gotten rid of this kind of attitude decades ago, and the > most inappropriate thing on this thread is to imagine that the woes of > a prominent musician have no relevance or application to other > musicians' lives and ought not to be mentioned because they are sexual > in nature. How Victorian! > > Let's get a quote out here and chew on it: > > On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:01 AM, dhbailey wrote: >> I take no pleasure in reading of the legal problems of others. >> >> As to the other tangential discussions, yes, some of them disappointed >> me, and I took no part in them. But none were posted for purely >> prurient reasons. >> >> How does knowing of his arrest help any of us be better musicians, >> better engravers, better scholars of copyright issues, better >> conductors, better people, better anything? >> >> There is absolutely no connection between those charges and the >> performance of classical music or to anything musical at all. > > We can first dispose of the entirely unjustified charge that the > original message was posted "for purely prurient reasons." There is > absolutely no evidence to suggest that such was the case, and to imply > otherwise says more about the objector than about the original poster. > > As for the rest, let me remind all of you (since you seem, > unaccountably, to have forgotten) that what has happened to Mr. King is > exactly what happened to Henry Cowell. The experience of being > convicted and imprisoned on a morals charge had a most definite effect > on his career, his private life, and his musical style--and if you > really don't know this already, check his Wikipedia article, which lays > it all out. I would think that the stylistic evolution of a major > composer is of, well, just a teeny bit of relevance to anyone > interested in American classical music. > > Oh, I forgot, that's all just prurient. No possible connection to us > *honest* musicians. > > Well here's a shock: just about every country on earth has "sex crimes" > on the books that should not be crimes at all. Now, I may be wrong, but > it looks very much to me as if Mr. King has been set up to take a fall > on exactly this sort of charge. *That* is what I thought this thread > was going to be about. Silly me. > > But see, what happened to King, or something similar, could happen to > *you* tomorrow. All you have to do is wander into some DA's radar, and > if they want you, for whatever reason, they gotcha. Happens every few > months here in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. Happens everywhere. > > Andrew Stiller > Kallisti Music Press > http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
