Re: Re: Baseball-A Music Related Commentary


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Posted by Richard on August 31, 2002 at 12:07:13:

In Reply to: Re: Baseball-A Music Related Commentary posted by Mark Wiseman on August 31, 2002 at 10:52:53:

Mark stated Many orchestras seem to believe the more esoteric the better.
They believe that anything the general public might enjoy couldn't possibly be worth playing.

I'd like to know some examples of these many orchestras that are loading up their programming with off-putting esoterica. My impression is that orchestras are being very cautious and sticking to well-known repertoire in order to attract audiences that are familiar with the tunes they've heard in TV commercials, and sometimes on-hold. It's not the "common peoples" fault that the culture is being coarsened and dumbed down. It's the progress of corporate power (easier to sell to a gullible population) and politicians and legislators (dumber is easier to control).

And baseball is not for the dumb. To play it well, or to follow it well as a spectator requires sufficient intellignence to learn the rules, and a broad attention span. Kind of like classical music


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