On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Are you saying that music is an assault on your person like the unrequested window washing is an assault on your car?
It can be. Suppose you were mentally rehearsing an important presentation as you moved thru the subway. Suppose, alternatively, that Bell just showed up at your front door? During dinner? Would he even have been give the opportunity to raise his bow? Should he have?
We just had a long thread on this list RE the supposed destructive characteristics of unwanted music.
As for "assault on your car," that is arguable only if 1) your windshield really didn't need cleaning and 2) if the squeegee guy was not doing a good job. Would I reject such overtures even so? You bet. Do I walk right past most buskers? You bet.
And, of course, that whole squeegee thing was a vast exaggeration by Giuliani and his ilk -- there were never more than a few dozen of these characters to begin with.
I doubt that Giuliani ever had the slightest hint of the squeegee situation in Philadelphia: few in number, but positioned at crucial intersections.
The whole world is not NYC, you know. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/kallisti.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
