Klarinet Archive - Posting 000147.txt from 1997/05

From: SDM@-----. Morrow)
Subj: Re: Music, performance, and marching bands
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:09:08 -0400

Music and literature both have in common that they can range from
the tediously cerebral to the mind-numbing schlock; it all depends what
you want to accomplish. In the middle of these extremes is not (in my
opinion) the "commercial", but the "accessible". If good music/literature
becomes commercially successful, it is because it is accessible to a wide
range of people; just because music is accepted by the masses doesn't mean
it's schlock! Remember: sometimes "the masses" is us!
I have, for some time, felt that if Mozart were alive today, he
would be writing film scores.

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410) 955-3631

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