Klarinet Archive - Posting 000700.txt from 2004/10

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] Appealing to the superficial
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:24:27 -0400

On 24 Oct, Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com> wrote:

> ...I submit we should declare this thread officially over with. Please.
> Pretty please.

There's perhaps one point to be made.

We do no-one any favours by trying to appeal to merely superficial aspects of
what they currently seem to 'like'.

This is a principle that applies to art, to politics -- and, I'd say, to life
in general.

In particular, it's worthwhile understanding that kids don't like 'their'
music *just because there's a drumkit under it* -- or whatever.

To think that they do, and to act as if they do, is to demean them very
profoundly.

They may, or may not, come to appreciate Mozart. But if they do, it will be
on what are *both his and their* own terms.

...and, it doesn't really matter if they don't.

Tony
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