On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Dave Phillips<dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > Something to start the week. While reading from PH's A Composer's World > this morning I discovered this passage: > > "If there is anything remaining in this world that is on the one side > basically aristocratic and individualistic and on the other side as > brutal as the fights of wild animals, it is artistic creation. It is > aristocratic, because it is the privilege of a very restricted number of > people. If it could be democratized, it would lose its quality as an > art, become reduced to a craft, and end as an industry. In many branches > of our musical life we already have reached this lowest, industrial > phase, as we let musical democracy have its unbridled way." > > Prophetic or just dyspeptic ? Comments welcome... > > Best, > > dp > Hi Dave, Good quote. I vote mostly prophetic. - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
