Matt, you're around enough to know that we've all got our egos wrapped up in our musics to a greater and lesser extent, and that people have opinions about the works of others based on a lot of factors, not all of them having to do with one big happy world of music makers.
The academic world sets up some odd distracting tensions, those outside the academic world have thier own struggles, and in the end we're all a bunch of humans with the range of feelings and emotions we are blessed and cursed with. I realize this pretty much totally ignores what you wrote and what you were trying to get out of writing it. My point is that when we hear this one or that one say or imply this our that about another's work, remember it's like farts. Everyone's got 'em and only your own smell right. I have learned from a lot of people, and some of those people have had strong opinions about other of those people. I listen to the criticism and then move on. I don't let it poison my relationships with the opiner or the opined that this one is "overly influenced by Rumanian music" or that one "refuses to admit that such and so is a flawed method of research". Learn from them all and let them have thier opinions. -- r l reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, which offers online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ * * FREE JEWISH LEARNING * * Shamash invites you to join MyJewishLearning.com, a comprehensive, objective, authoritative and interactive learning resource in all areas of Judaism. Free membership via http://www.myjewishlearning.com/shamash ---------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------=
