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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: Beginning a classical collection
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.221729.3597@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:17:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.205134.23099@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) writes:
- >You're in luck! There's a book called "Who's Afraid of Classical Music,"
- >by Michael Walsh. Even though it's a *little* pandering at times, it's
- >a good book over all, and he recommends conductors, performers and recordings.
- >His taste is quite good, IMHO.
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- Yexch. I'd rather listen to three hours of uninterrupted Melanie or
- something. Yes, he panders -- all over the place. Opera is just
- sex and violence and titters, composer trivia replaces any discussion
- of who these people were and why they wrote the music they did and
- why people listened to it so intently, and on and on. The book
- trivializes classical music, and it's laden with errors, besides.
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- Roger
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