--- Gordon Mackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmmm... some muddled thoughts from me now...
>
> Gershwin was dogged all his life by musicologists
> and other 'so
> called' experts who couldn't decide how to classify
> his music (that
> sounds familiar) .
Funny you should mention that. When I'm feeling
really anal retentive and decide I want to sort my
music into categories, one of the problems I run into
is, where do I put Gershwin? Jazz? Classical? Pop?
I resolved that part of it by just putting everything
in together, in alphabetical order (so for example,
you'd have Metheney, Mitchell and Mozart just lumped
together in the Ms. The next dilemma is (esp. for
classical stuff), do I file it under the name of the
composer? The performer? The conductor? And what do
you do if it's got more than one composer, or more
than one soloist? AAAggghh! Trying to make order out
of chaos seems to produce more chaos.
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