13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
3:32 p.m.
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 14:11 +0000, James Harkins wrote:
In grad school, I had a full-semester seminar on
Bach's cantatas. I
thought I knew Bach before that. I was wrong.
If already musicians need an academic seminar to "know" that music, then
I won't call it music anymore, or at least I agree with the "pedestrian"
statement. Something that reaches the heart, doesn't need academic
explanations. Academic explanation of music is the intellectual
equivalent of heavy rotation for the uneducated. Get the people hook on
something that can't reach the heart.
;)