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Kevin Sutton wrote:
>Lebrecht comes across as a petty, muckraking, sour grape sucking wannabe
>who is furious with the world that he has only amassed enough talent to
>trash the work of others instead of creating anything worthwhile to say on
>his own. I am afraid that I would have to call into question the common
>sense of anyone who takes him seriously
As a music lover, I would tend to Mr. Sutton's point of view, alas, as
a professional musician who has worked closely with many people discussed
in Lebrecht's books, I have to say that generally he is quite on the mark.
I do feel that many people who love music simply don't want to know that
the very nature of our art (as Auber said: 'an ephemeral art destroyed
by fashion') allows very many people to distort and take advantage of this
fact to further their own interests, and not the interests of music itself.
Furthermore it should be stressed that mr. Lebrecht doesn't question the
talent of the musicians, rather puts in the open the strategies of the
organizers, agents etc. I do not like the gossipy parts of the book
either, but then I guess that's marketing strategy.
But thank heavens someone started to stand up and say that everything in
the classical music world is not the way it appears to be, there are too
many fine musicians out there who have little hope of reaching the public.
And what annoys me is the fact that music itself, and those who love it are
unknowingly paying the price for the way the music industry has been run
the past 30 years or so.
Giuliano Finessi
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