American serious Art still has to go to Europe to get its authorization while the UK comes to America to authorize its commercial art. The lower class Beatles came to America and were immediately compared to Beethoven by idiot musicologists who had gotten their degrees in musicology because they were not good enough to be performers. Otherwise they would have known the difference. Today we get official authorizations of banal ordinary 32 bar song four chord song forms, sung in uneducated vocalisms by teenagers who can't read music as the culture of America and the best thing we have to offer, for example, read "American Culture, American Tastes" by Michael Kammen for starters. For the rest you can just sample the music of the average American where Beatle's type of music has taken over the great music of the Christian Church in the last 40 years. Forty years ago there was a clear deliniation between vulgar, common and the Music of the Spheres. Today, they don't know the difference unless you use a dirty word and then its "black". Except on the FW list where its still vulgar thank God! A trashy chord was just that and was as inappropriate as a trashy word. Today, trash, except on the FW list, is only known in expletives. But the musical expletives are heard with impunity on the highest levels. That is the legacy of the Boys from Liverpoole. Meanwhile they even trashed the Requiem Mass which has its own problems which Kurt Vonnegut was willing to take on from the verbal side. It was bad enough when Verdi turned the Mass to opera in his Requiem. Today we get it as tawdry bar music. That is the Beatle virus.
REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: Re: was: [Futurework] I forgot: We're also still spending almost US$1 billion per month in Afghanistan > Ray Evans Harrell wrote: > > [snip] > > the Beatles invaded America and infected the music scene with what they > > couldn't say back home unless they were high on drugs. > [snip] > > Please, Ray, let me (us?) hear more about this! > > I have no idea what you are talking about, > but since I like to revise history (even > though I did not major in it...), I'm interested! > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
