tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post8014375285062095357..comments2024-01-20T23:55:26.269-08:00Comments on The Detritus Review: Just Because You Write for the Times Doesn't Mean You Don't SuckUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-1422631801907852222009-09-21T08:32:09.208-07:002009-09-21T08:32:09.208-07:00Empiricus makes a good point. Joe Queenan and his ...Empiricus makes a good point. Joe Queenan and his cultural hegemony aside, there is something to the "stunt" quality of these types of events -- a sort of Pros vs. Joes for classical music. I appreciate (and often preach) the view that music is all on one giant continuum argument...there is no good/bad, only a sense that a piece of music has accomplished it's own self-determined set of goals and expectations. However, jam band charts are not the same as fully composed works of "classical" music. Their goals are not the same (musically speaking), nor do the skills required to create one necessarily translate to the other. <br /><br />I always look at events like this skeptically. While there have been interesting crossovers -- headed for sure by Frank Zappa who really did have something to say in the medium, but also by Rick Wakeman, Jon Lord, Procol Harum and others -- the vast majority of this music has been amateurish. Orchestras should always be looking for new and interesting voices in music (no matter where they come from), but these attempts at drawing upon popular music seem shallow attempts at best, and very cynical at worst...the audience aside, of course.<br /><br />On the other hand, it is always important to keep an open mind and welcome the opportunity to experience a new, possibly innovative voice. Joe Queenan, however, is seemingly dismissive of everyone all at once...that's quite sense of superiority he's got going there...that's just super. Good for him.<br /><br />Very funny, rage-filled stuff, SA.Gustavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05316458340368681169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-55211022619711458802009-09-20T16:55:25.925-07:002009-09-20T16:55:25.925-07:00The hypocrisy remains: the audience will, most ent...The hypocrisy remains: the audience will, most enthusiastically indeed, welcome intrusions if concocted by their classically well-trained composers, i.e., Golijov, Glass, Daugherty, Corigliano, Adams, Lloyd Weber, Dvorak, and so on ad infinitum. <br /><br />Down with laissez-faire driven music institutions and the autocrats that consume them!<br /><br />Or: down with...<br /><br />[checks out Trey's Youtube video]<br /><br />...Oh my! That sucks. That really sucks.<br /><br />I never thought I'd say this but his orchestration is worse than Schumann, Stockhausen and Chopin combined!Empiricushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629835829400843701noreply@blogger.com