As ever, I feel that David B has got it right. My feeling is that if a world class guitarist, classical or otherwise, were to play in the same venue they would attract greater interest than Joshua B. This will, I'm sure irk many people, but- I'll bet there are many more people who know who John Williams (Gtr!) Segovia and Tommy Emmanuel are than know of Josh Bell. BTW I'm not a guitarist! Brass is my scene.
Cheers from Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Horton Sent: Friday, 13 April 2007 4:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. Joshua Bell at L'Enfant Plaza dhbailey wrote: > > > Didn't you say that you refuse to buy and iPod because you don't want > music to be a passive listening experience? > For people who don't want to hear it, music is indeed as much an > obnoxious assault as those squeegee kids (or their older counterparts). > > Think of the assault on our ears by the muzak systems in supermarkets, > hotel lobbies, elevators, telephone answering systems and elsewhere. > > A classical violinists playing live in a non-musical location or in a > location where one doesn't really want to be hearing music is just as > obnoxious to some people. > > To me, when I visited in Spain, the difference was amplification. That made it unwelcome. I like good acoustic music outdoors in most situations, but the over-amped music from the other end of a plaza was annoying. Rymond Horton _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
