Wes Crone ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>>..., My problem is that we are expected to hear - buy indeed - these
>>early gropings of his as if they were mature masterworks.
>
>...  Orchestrating Beatles songs has been a fad for some time.  I am
>curious as to why you think we are expected to think of his old stuff as
>mature masterworks when they are very clearly re-done pop songs....re-done
>McCartney pop songs.

I don't think that's what I said.

>...  It may take an extra nudge from the record executives to get the word
>of Paul McCartney's music out on the street, where Bach doesn't need that
>kind of advertising.

Maybe that's because bach is a far better composer.  But that wasn't my
point, which was that this is a totally inequitable way of doing business
for EMI's classical division.

Deryk Barker
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