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Leslie Kinton writes:
>I think what music needs is someone who is to it what Carl Sagan was to
>science (or Mortimer Adler is to philosophy); i.e., someone who, through
>the power of his or her writing, is able to bridge this gap between the
>non-professional and professional without trivializing the content to
>the point of its not being useful...
The need's surely there. But it's one thing to do a dignified
popularization of classical philosophy, or of modern cosmology, and another
thing to attempt it for music. The problem, I think, is that everyone's a
musician, though a natural rather than a trained one--while not everybody,
by a long shot, is a God-given philosopher or cosmologist. Everybody
_knows_ what melody is; it's only the professionals who know they don't
know. Seems to me,then, that when it comes to the problem of melody,
Jedermann knows more than Superman. If you want to fix that, the right
sort of writer to look for is one who can enthrall the supermen into not
thinking negatively.
Denis Fodor Internet:[log in to unmask]
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