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Mike Leghorn writes:
>>If you could learn to like Disco, then you'd only have to buy one CD,
>>and press the repeat button on your CD player. Same goes for a lot
>>of the pop music that's played these days (which is the same as
>>disco, but with a different name.
Don replies:
>Perhaps Mike is being too hard on pop music. With any musical category,
>greater intimacy results in being able to differentiate among the many
>styles within a category such as pop. Put another way, a pop enthusiast
>could take Mike's comments above and simply change "Disco" to "Haydn
>String Quartets" and then relate how they sound so similar to Mozart
>String Quartets. Familiarity breeds distinctions.
Don makes a good point. This sounds like the remark (was it?) Stravinsky
made about Vivaldi writing the same concerto 500 times.
Ron Chaplin
Iselin, New Jersey, USA
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