Mats Norrman wrote:

>Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]>
>
>>What I don't like about a lot of classical music lovers is that they treat
>>their heroes like gods and that it is blasphemy to say things like "Mozart
>>was a pop musician" or call Wagner "Little Richard".  Goodness, treat
>>humans like humans.  ...
>
>That judgement doesn't necessarily have to lie in OUR wiew of these
>composers solely.  For your saying above "Little Rickard" would irritated
>have - in a long monologue - bombarded you with arguments about the
>importance if himself and his work.  Had you put your hands for your ears
>he had screamed so you heard him, and could you stay without fleeing away
>for 20 hours, he had barked for 20 hours.  Or as Little Ludwig put it:
>"Man muss etwas sein um etwas scheinen" (="You have to be something to
>seem to be something").

I know that all Wagnerians will scold me but this is exactly my thinking of
Der Ring:  20 hours of screaming and barking by Little Richard.  I prefer
the composer who don't want to hammer their messages into my ears.

Robert