Ever Apologised for Your Love of Classical Music?

[Caliban]

And her reference to stroking JEG's "cantatas" has given me the creeps

I just read that and am similarly creeped-out...

"Come upstairs my dear, and I'll show you my canticles"

[Tapiola]

"Come upstairs my dear, and I'll show you my canticles"

"... and I can assure you of an historically informed performance..."

[MickyD]

..hopefully on an original instrument, though maybe a modern copy would be more reliable.

[Tapiola]

Agreed, Micky. Use of original instruments risks a disastrous drop in pitch at crucial moments.

[teamsaint]

Not in my case to loving classical music - or most aspects of it - but I have described myself as a musical snob for my love of some classical music and most of jazz and blues.

As an unreconstructed lefty trying and failing to adjust to Postmodernist relativism I am interested in and in some instances love other musical genres too, but when it comes to pop and a lot of rock music I am more interested in them as manifestations of our time than actually liking much of what they have had to offer, seeing their product as mostly patronising, existing to reflect shallow mass socially engineered taste, coming from an ephemeral aesthetic directed to rapid turnover, rather than challenging and broadening the range of human feeling and perspective deserving and capable of musical and artistic expression.

But, given that several posters on this forum with clearly right-wing views might concur with the abovespoken, I sometimes wonder if this does make me a musical snob, or whether it offers me some meagre hope that we might all come to an agreement as to what constitutes civilisation, in the Kenneth Clarke sense.

S-A

I agree that much of the output of the popular music industry is, and has been, engineered to keep its audience dumb.

But some life enhancing, top quality stuff gets through. Alex Harvey, elvis costello, difford and tilbrook,radiohead to name just a few at random, are people who have made music of the highest quality, and enhanced the lives of true music lovers the world over. But the rock and pop industry just produces more and more bland nonsense, so other genres, such as folk, benefit from the energy and talent of young people.
Good example...todays young folk musicians don;t apologise for their involvement in a music that hails from the past... they celebrate their rediscovery of it.

[EdgeleyRob]

In the same way that everybody who ever bought a supertramp or Thompson Twins record should excuse themselves.Although they should apologise too.

I must apologise,I like Supertramp!

[old khayyam]

Ever felt the need to apologise for reading Twitter?


No, because i don't.

[MickyD]

You don't read it or you don't apologise for reading it?