Klarinet Archive - Posting 000116.txt from 2004/06

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Eastern themes in western classical clarinet
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:48:04 -0400

David=A0Dow wrote:

> Sadly we are still a very ethnic centric world.

There is no argument that bigotry is a bad thing, and I am absolutely
not trying to justify or defend bigotry.

However, one of the reasons (aside from its humor) that I use the tag
line below is that total uniformity can be equally as undesirable.

I see a necessity to preserve ethnicities and "schools of music" and
"folk music" rather than trying to do away with them. The evil comes
when society switches from preserving them to condemning them.

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

"You're weird," the kid at rehearsal told me, "actually, everybody is
weird.... because if you're normal, that's just plain weird."

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