[LAU] Paul Hindemith says hello

[Bengt Gördén]

Den Monday 22 June 2009 15.24.42 skrev Fons Adriaensen:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:51:53PM +0200, Bengt Gördén wrote:
> > Den Monday 22 June 2009 14.35.19 skrev Fons Adriaensen:
> > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:00:26AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > >    I vote mostly prophetic.
> > >
> > > Given that this was written in the early 50s, it is quite
> > > prophetic.
> >
> > On the other hand he is wrong about musical creation being restricted to
> > a certain number of people so I vote for him being just dyspeptic.
>
> He's not saying that musical creation should be restricted to a
> small number of predetermined people. But de facto, like all
> artistic endeavour, it is a minority activity, We may all be
> potential great composers or artists, but most of us do not
> exploit that potential, just look around. Maybe 10% of the
> population is capable of producing anything that would be
> regarded by the remaining 90% as music they'd want to listen to.
> Less than 1% could do something that would survive a generation
> and become part of music history,

Absolutely. We have a sender and a receiver. I was arguing about this from the 
sending side not caring about the receiver.

Well. Lets agree that you thinks he's being prophetic and I thinks he's 
dyspeptic and if I ever get to LAC we can debate whether he is or not, over a 
nice cold pilsner. Czech or American style depending on if I need to cure an 
emerging dyspepsia or not. :-)

regards,


/bengan