Klarinet Archive - Posting 000406.txt from 2000/01

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Herbert vs. Karajan
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:57:47 -0500

Neil. Think about the word "boycott." You mean to tell
me that if you find some composer's music dull and boring,
you get groups of people with street signs that say, "Stop
listening to XXX's music. It is dry and boring."?

Or you initiate a newspaper campaign that says, "If you
sponsor XXX's dry and boring music, we are going to stop
buying your products."

Don't you mean something else other that "boycott"???
If you find the music dull, stop listening to it. But
boycott it? "Boycott" is a political action of some
consequence.

Are we simply having a communication problem? If so,
I will boycott you and you'll starve.

Neil Leupold wrote:
>
> --- Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:
>
> > but even considering the contemporary issue you bring
> > up would not have excluded Victor Herbert in my mind.
>
> That's right. As I admit in a subsequent post, my logic
> was completely fuzzy. Sorry about that. But your state-
> ment in another previous post bears comment -- that finding
> a composer's music dry and mechanical is a poor reason to
> boycot their music. Hmm....is it really a poor reason?
> One need not have strong political feelings about a com-
> poser in order to want to avoid them. If you simply hate
> the manner in which they wrote, and their music just sounds
> terrible to you, what better reason could you have for ac-
> tively and willfully avoiding exposure to it?
>
> -- Neil
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