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