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Len Fehskens <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:45:21 -0400
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Robert Peters writes:

>>This may sound horrible to you, but the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
>>is a perfect artistic expression of this times.
>
>It doesn't sound horrible to me, it simply sounds wrong.  His music is
>smooth, shallow entertainment, not more and not less.

What more perfect expression of contemporary values?!

>I bet all my money that the musicologists of the 22nd century will not
>know his name anymore and think of other composers as "the perfect
>artistic expression" of the late 20th century.

I think you'd be surprised by what is remembered by history.

len.

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