rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (08/22/84)
> Actually, one of the nice things about old classical music is that we've > had lots of centuries to weed out a lot of the junk that was composed > for money by people with minimal inspiration. > I really couldn't say if it's true or not, but maybe the classical > music we hear today has stood the test of time. > It's like the 'best of the 70's' weekends you get on rock stations > from time to time. We select what we like and think is really *good*, > and ignore much of the rest. This cuts both ways. I'm sure I'm glad that a lot of the crap was weeded out of classical anywhere from decades to hundreds of years ago, yet I'm not convinced that they weeded out the right stuff. The price of contemporary music is that you hear more crap; the benefit is that you have some say in what doesn't make it. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Are you making this up as you go along?