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