Klarinet Archive - Posting 000209.txt from 2004/04

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Pulitzer: Unlisted Non-Winners
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:59:27 -0400

Bear - you think that history will remember you because "I am the First
Person in Music History to write TWO Double Fugue Works to commemorate
an historic event". Even putting aside that you write as if you have
been spending the day with Christopher Robin, this is plain nonsense.

Get real. Either history will remember you or it won't. But it will be
the quality of the music not the form that will dictate the answer to
this question. Technique is merely a means to an end - not an end in
itself. The end is artistic, not technical.

Would you say that you have a greater place in musical history than
Mozart? Of course he wasn't a good enough musician to write two double
fugue works to commemorate an historic event, was he?

Matthew Lloyd

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