On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 12:54 +0000, Neil C Smith wrote: > Things that are not preservable, and eventually evolve or fade away - > and a good thing too, as that's how culture moves forward. Correct and it doesn't mean that we don't respect or we'll forget our roots. Will anybody who worship Walter Gropius, live in Gropiusstadt? http://www.google.de/search?q=gropiusstadt&hl=de&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=QmrQUOnMJI_DtAaDi4DQCw&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1152&bih=729 Tempi passati! Don't get me wrong, if I would watch an opera, I don't like stagings where an old story is adapted to modern times regarding to costumes and set design. Any heterosexual man who wants to see the chubby opera singer in a leather mini and fishnets? That's simply bad taste, she could look cute, wearing clothes that fit to her. Are aesthetics gone? OTOH it's good that Karajan and Bernstein aren't making music any more and we get new interpretation of the music. They also didn't preserve the "original" music, but coloured it and I don't like to hear their style again and again and again. Just my taste. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
