Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2005/01

From: orm1ondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Your Hit Parade
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:39:45 -0500

Matthew=A0wrote:

> 1812 is Tchaikovsky? Cappriccio Italien ditto?

Yes.

Matthew, perhaps my "where I live" comment was unnecessarily sarcastic,
but I have never been able to understand why some people dismiss
Tchaikovsky. I *can* understand why some people dismiss Vaughan
Williams's music (repetitive, doesn't lead anywhere), but the
Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky?

(Heh! I know that some people don't enjoy mushrooms or salmon either.)

....anyway, I didn't mean to be abrasive; but "pearl among swine" is a
strong metaphor for music which (imo) has real value. FWIW. YMMV.

Cheers,
Ormond

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