Re: [b] -- da bestest

["Matthew George" <matthew.george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Snodgrass;

> Have you ever tried to play anything with your soul? No. 

Explain the mechanics of this one, to an atheist.

> Classicaly trained
> 'musicians' waste their whole lives being a tape recorder. I have
> played it. It brings tears to my eyes. It's lofty, it's humble, it is
> death and rebirth delivered by a master and fucked too frequently by
> so many pretentious asses that call themselves musicians that couldn't
> write an interesting jingle for a godamned dish soap advert. Spew
> f-ing "Wonderwall" and other shit and call Mozart a twat??

You're aiming your tirade at the wrong person.  I learnt to play 
music by ear, learnt to read music so I could piss my mates off by 
doing exams before and better than they did, and only started 
playing in an orchestra when I wanted to go on a tour I heard 
about.  I do not particularly delight in regurjitating someone else's 
music, but the best place to hear an orchestral work is from on the 
stage where it's being played.  

You slag musicians because they play a dead men's music, and 
yet you're perfectly happy to listen to them doing it i.e. you don't 
even have the commitment, passion or ability to play the stuff 
yourself.   That is, of course, unless you read scores (Tim 
Gudgeon), rather than listen to people playing them (Mozart - the 
Mills & Boon of the dead musicians' world).

Your rant also demonstrated, thanks to the comment about 
musicians being tape recorders, that you listen to too few 
renditions of your supposedly beloved music, or at least you listen 
to poor ones.  Good conductors have their own takes on how the 
music should sound, and the musicians tend to have an input into 
how it should sound - particularly soloists, when it comes to 
cadenzas, etc. because a good musician will improvise.

Mozart - the choice of Otis, Schindler and a dozen other leading lift 
manufacturers.  Oh, and Wonderwall is one of the most dispicable 
pieces of shit I've ever had the misfortune to switch off.  

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