Klarinet Archive - Posting 000443.txt from 2000/01

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Herbert vs Karajan
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 03:01:14 -0500

Recently I was in eBay looking for a CD in the "rare and difficult to find"
category and I chanced to note there was a large section of "popular music"
holding forth in the market place at astonishingly high prices, contrasting
significantly with the intrinsic worth of the "classical" CDs listed for
virtually peanuts. It was news to me that the "pop" genre had a collectable
monetary worth or,IMO, any worth at all for that matter. Now, recalling
the interesting dialog between Dan Leeson, Neil Leupold and Dave Sandusky
on the etymology of Boycott and the shades of meaning defining whether or
not one likes or dislikes Victor Herbert or Herbert Karajan, I offer my
Alexandrian school of judgement as I apply it to paying $500 for "Rare
Rock Group" CDs: I wouldn't walk across the road to hear the most devoutly
cherished, the most highly eulogized, the rarest Rock Group extant on this
or any other planet. Much like the old New Yorker magazine cartoon whereby
the snotty little kid being encouraged by his parents to eat his dinner, says,
"I say its broccoli and I say to hell with it!"

Don Longacre..
still searching for A Manx Overture

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