On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:51:53PM +0200, Bengt Gördén wrote: > Den Monday 22 June 2009 14.35.19 skrev Fons Adriaensen: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:00:26AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I vote mostly prophetic. > > > > Given that this was written in the early 50s, it is quite > > prophetic. > > 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. 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 Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
