Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 2005/06

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: Somehow I passed my own test
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:28:06 -0400

Anyone can hold this view. I certainly did not, nor did the
majority of responses to my comment about not finding favor in
this particular Adams composition. But it is a generalization to
have come back with the comments about elitist and holier thn
thou attitudes, as if there were a flood of such opinions
offered. You point out just one.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:24 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] re: Somehow I passed my own test

dnleeson wrote:

> And Benjamin comes back and lectures to us about this being an
> "elistist" and "holier than thou" attitude displayed to
contemporary
> music.

Ben and I were responding to a later comment about "atonal,
ultra-modern
academic trash" in fact.

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