On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Rob Dorsey wrote: > Scholarly criticisms aside, doesn't Sting at least get credit for > trying? > And, aren't we a bit disloyal to the music in not believing that > it can > stand on its own? This music has endured for 4 centuries. It can > surely > stand up to some perhaps misguided interpretation by Sting, me, or > any other > person who sees beauty in it and tries to give it life
Donald Grout came to my university when I was a student and someone asked him about doing unHIP things like playing Bach on the piano. He said, "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." That always cracks me up. Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
