Klarinet Archive - Posting 000200.txt from 2011/01

From: Michael Whight <michaelwhight@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Appreciation of music and cricket
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:04:53 -0500

You know the great thing about the internet is the democratising force it has. The Establishment cannot doctrinise by teaching the official view of anything so effectively anymore. Type 'Never Question Authority' into YouTube to see a fantasic musician liberating Canary Wharf in London. The point is you have every right to publish your opinion. Some people will like it and others will think it's bollocks but go for it!

--- On Wed, 19/1/11, kathleenwilliams76@-----.com> wrote:

> From: kathleenwilliams76@-----.com>
> Subject: [kl] Appreciation of music and cricket
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Date: Wednesday, 19 January, 2011, 21:43
> Learned friends,
>
> I have completed part one of my project on comparisons
> between the Concerto and Quintet. Over an hour, but promise
> it to be highly entertaining and informative, with a mixture
> of talking and playing.
>
> Now that I've had time to ponder, I do appreciate Dan
> Leeson's technical viewpoint of music. Let me illustrate by
> comparing appreciation of music to appreciation of my
> favourite sport, cricket.
>
> Now, cricket can be appreciated on many levels. Sure, there
> is the obvious enjoyment factor, sit in the crowd, cheer
> wildly when a batsman hits a good shot, give the opposition
> fielder on your part of the boundary a hard time, throw your
> beer cup in the air during the mexican wave. To highlight
> this further, let me tell you of the Barmy Army. These are a
> group of Englishmen who tour the world following their
> cricket team. Up until recently, England wasn't doing so
> well. That didn't deter these faithful followers, no matter
> how badly their team went, they still sang their songs and
> cheered and clapped all day, being roundly sozzled and
> sunburnt at the end of each day. Imagine their joy recently
> when their team won a series on Australian soil after 25
> years......
>
> So that is one way to enjoy cricket. Cricket is also a game
> of numbers, and can be approached from a statistical
> standpoint. How many runs a batsman scores, how many wickets
> a bowler takes, where the runs are being scored etc. I won't
> bore you. That is another way to enjoy cricket if you are
> mathemitically minded.
>
> There are those who say cricket is deadly boring and how
> can you play for five days without a result. These people
> are not appreciating the psychological element. Cricket is a
> game at all times, 11 against 2. 11 fielders and two
> batsman. Now, the fielders close to the batsman try to psych
> them out with snide comments about having relations with the
> batman's wife etc called sledging. Sometimes the batsman
> bites back with a 'chirp', othertimes he lets the bat do the
> talking and score lots of runs, or he can fail miserably and
> get out. A bit like 'hey batter batter batter batter' in
> baseball. Bowlers bowl to plans, batsmen have goals, one
> side is trying to get on top of the other side.
>
> But enough boring stuff about a game most of you have no
> concept about. My point is, like cricket, like movies, like
> most things in life, music can be appreciated on many
> levels, and one level is not right and the other wrong.
> Approach it from a technical standpoint, analysis of motifs,
> themes, harmonic progressions, lovely, if you are into that.
> Enjoy it from an emotional perspective, which the majority
> of us do, fabulous. Look at the psychology of music, on a
> much deeper level. Sometimes you appreciate more than one
> level.
>
> The important thing is, there is no right way to appreciate
> music. Dan is not right or wrong, I am not right or wrong,
> Barenboim or Meyer are not right or wrong. When the video
> uploads, and it is a 10G file, which will take close to 24
> hours to up load, enjoy it purely as my point of view, one
> of millions. You don't have to agree with it, you may love
> it, but it is completely up to you, and your reaction to it
> is unique and should not be challenged.
>
> I hope I have restored some sanity
>
> Kind regards, Kathy Williams-DeVries
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