At 01:09 PM 5/26/2007, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
>Wait a minute--how can anyone be wrong about what they like? Like any great
>composer Bach offers more than just a single attribute, and I think that all
>three comments here are very perceptive. When people make blanket statements
>to the effect that "all atonal music is crap" I remind them that they
>disqualify the 40th symphony of Mozart (the bit right ofter the double bar
>in the finale)
You are sounding like my 20th Century music graduate class professor
(Charles Whittenberg) who said about some Baroque music composer who used a
"chromatic passing tone", "see, they used chromaticism back in 1600."
I stopped listening to what he said after that.
We also had to write a composition (for the instruments students in that
class played) for that class. I would call my style "neo-baroque".
Whittenberg had no clue that I was writing in the pattern of Bach. I am
not sure he even knew what Baroque was.
Several students came up to me, after the performance, and said how much
they liked playing "classical" music.
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