22 Jun
2009
22 Jun
'09
11:37 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Fons Adriaensen<fons(a)kokkinizita.net> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:51:53PM +0200, Bengt Gördén
wrote:
I started to write something similar on my first response but deleted
it thinking someone else could do a better job. I'm glad I didn't.
Well said and thanks.
Cheers,
Mark
P.S. - I think your numbers are far too optimistic, but maybe the
'industry' has both found the 10% that sort of can and lowered the
tolerance of the 90% to get them to think they agree? Ah, industry...
Better living through chemicals?
Den Monday 22 June 2009 14.35.19 skrev Fons
Adriaensen:
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,
Ciao,
--
FA On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:00:26AM -0700, Mark
Knecht wrote:
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. I vote mostly prophetic.
Given that this was written in the early 50s, it is quite
prophetic.