Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 2000/07

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Whither Classical Music? (re. Tony's post)
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:49:14 -0400

<><> Ray Nelson wrote:
Popular music is about love (sex), and
classical music is about death

I suppose that "Splish Splash, I Was Taking A Bath" and "Shake,
Rattle and Roll Those Pots and Pans" and "Stars and Stripes Forever" and
"76 Trombones Led The Big Parade" and "Good Ship Lollipop" and "Modern
Major General" and "Are You All Reet?" and "The M.T.A. Song" and "When
The Saints Go Marching In" are about sex and love?

And I suppose that Handel's Water Music and Bach's Brandenberg
Concertos and Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite and Respighi's Pines of Rome
and Chabrier's Suite Pastorale and Copland's Appalachian Spring and....

<what's the point in going any further with this?>

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