Elle Hogan writes:

> When a piece of music reaches out and grabs you by the heart, it's
> serious.  I don't care what composer.  What genre.  Don't care.
>
> I am allowed this sacrilege because I am an old woman who has loved and
> played music for 50 years.  Seriously.

An old man salutes you.  I remember as a toddler being absolutely
enthralled by Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" and "I'll Get By,"
as well as by Bach's 2nd English Suite.  I made no distinction then. 
It was all music, and music I liked.  That's about where I am 60 years
later.  I still love Cab Calloway and Jimmy Durante, as well as Fred
Astaire and Ella Fitzgerald, bluegrass, Delta blues, and Schoenberg and
Webern and Bartok and Hindemith and Stravinsky etc., etc.  I sometimes
worry that I have no filter, that I (to quote Beecham) don't care for
music but love the noise it makes.  Then I hear what strikes me as
insipid, mechanical, uninspired, sickeningly sweet, bland, and crass
and realize that I must have standards somewhere, really deep down.

Steve Schwartz

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