Klarinet Archive - Posting 001350.txt from 1997/08

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: you call that music?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 15:40:33 -0400

On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Bill Edinger wrote:

> 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 have to agree with you. I think I was too charitable or at least too
broad in my definitions.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu