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/



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