Klarinet Archive - Posting 000570.txt from 2002/07

From: w8wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] Music the makes you Wince
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 13:32:42 -0400

<><> Anything becomes horrid after a thousand requests ...

I wonder? There is a difference between temporary and permanent
satiation. If you offered me 20 chocolate bars during a single
afternoon, probably I'd decline some of them. But could chocolate lose
its appeal for the rest of my life?

In the same way, can you tire *permanently* of a composition that is
truly beautiful to you?

I had posted that I can't tolerate Pomp & Circumstance because of a
3-day torture session when I was young, and yet I also posted that I
searched the music out a few nights ago and I played it. I never did
feel that Pomp was truly great music, but on the other hand, after 45
years of not dealing with it, it doesn't disgust me any longer.

I suppose that this question applies to any value system. Which values
(if any) are so fundamental that, if you tire of them long term, you
must say that *you* have changed --- rather than that the value wasn't
truly fundamental?

.....anyway, it bugs me a little bit to say that *all* musical values
are less than fundamental. Albeit, each of us has a different idea of
which qualities are the fundamental ones, and probably we can't define
the most important ones except to say "I know it when I
hear/see/taste/etc it."

Cheers,
Bill

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