rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (08/18/85)
[] I'm beginning to think that all the criticism of splitting net.music and creating net.music.classical may have been right after all. For a long time it seems that all that anyone can think to write about is music and Nazi-ism, or perhaps whether so-and-so is or is not gay. Of course, at the beginning we had real deep and interesting stuff like My list of ten best composers is better than your list. Then, from time to time we have the esoterics who brought music school along with them and one or two can understand. I've even used it to try to find out what happened to a once famous organist (without result). Now, perhaps all this <is> better than endless, mindless consideration of whether or not the dead should be grateful, and similar topics forever afloat in net.music, but IS THIS ALL THERE IS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC! (note "!", not "?") Can't someone talk about something that is both interesting and educational? or at least one of the two? I hate to give the "big U" to a topic with as much potential as this one. I haven't much to contribute myself, I acknowledge. But then I don't usually clutter up this group, either (I clutter up others). If nothing else comes along but Nazi-ism and such, here are a few topics I, for one, could learn something from: How about some solid information on Database programs for a home record collection - an extensive one. Anything on PC's considered good? Anything specially cooked up or does one have to role their own with some general purpose dbase system? How about using your office's mini (who dares!)? Is there anything worthwhile there? Is there any interest out there in local Art Center Organizations? Am I the only techy-type who has gotten involved with a local, poor but honest group so as to be closer to the music making and theater business without being sucked into it? I guess this is the wrong newsgroup for that, but net.theater seems to have foundered. Is every musical form an acquired taste? My aunt forced me to listen to classical music until I liked it. Well, she made me listen to stuff I didn't want to hear in order to hear what I did want to hear (the Light Cavalry Overture). My arts center work made me listen to lots of bluegrass. I now like bluegrass. (It also made me listen to lots of fat ladies bellowing arias. I still like some, and dislike most) -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg