18 Dec
2012
18 Dec
'12
11:59 a.m.
On 18 December 2012 08:48, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Cultural heritage is going to pieces in many places
due to the fact that in
the current (bank-driven) ultra-utilitarian society where culture and
humanities are considered 'ephemeral',
If only that was true. Ephemeral things are not that easy to
monetize. And cultural heritage is such a spurious notion anyway - it
is about objects (by which I include musical scores) devoid of
context, and rather too much like taxidermy. It's also rather a new
concept. A favourite quote of mine from an article by Simon Emmerson
-
"We should not forget that the phrase avant-garde was first used by
Henri de Saint-Simon in
France (1825) at almost exactly the same time as Mendelssohn's
inauguration of the museum
culture in western concert music with the revival of Bach's Matthew
Passion (1829) - the past
and the future at once, western civilisation's triumphal claim to
conquest over all time, let
alone all space."
Best wishes,
Neil
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