Klarinet Archive - Posting 001347.txt from 1997/08

From: Bill Edinger <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: you call that music?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 13:43:58 -0400

Ed Lacy wrote, regarding Pete Fountain, Lawrence Welk, and other
performers:

"we didn't have the benefit of 20/20
hindsight as we tried to understand the relationships between the
various types of music and its aesthetics and sociology."

Lawrence Welk made MUSIC? I guess most of us have become more broad in
our interpretations over the years. But as for myself, even today, try
as I will to watch the reruns, I still cringe, hold by breath, and let
out a scream as I frantically run for the remote after only a few
seconds of that torture.

Bill E. (whose grandparents always turned it on - as background "music"
for their conversations)