[LAU] re Subconscious Affecting Music

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 2 September 2010 07:52, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> I don't mean to be offensive, but that does sound an awful lot like what
>> parents were saying when Elvis came out.  :)
> I studied and played ragtime quite a bit. That was the "popular music" my
> grandmother loved when she was young. One time when I was playing some
> ragtime at her house, she came over and said, "Oh, you're playing that dirty
> ragtime music." That was what her parents had said about ragtime when it was
> popular!
I'm pretty sure when Mozart came out to play & conduct a concert, a
couple of ladies fainted and old women always said the same thing. :)

(Note: The concerts used to be a lot more energetic those days, the
silent, passive listeners were not (here's a good rant about iit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/08/classical-music-applause-rule-obama))
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