--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, awoelflebater <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Thanks Barry, that's what happens when I don't see something > > until 5 years after it occurred. > > On the other hand, there are folks on FFL now who weren't > there for the previous discussion. > > I have a number of beefs with the whole experiment. One > of them is the choice of instrument and music. It's almost > as if the choices were made to ensure that as few people > as possible would be arrested by the music as they hurried > to work. The Bach Chaconne in particular is not a piece > that most people would instantly recognize as "beautiful" > unless they had had considerable exposure to classical > music. I have had such exposure, and Bach is my favorite > composer, but I didn't begin to appreciate the Chaconne > until I'd heard it four or five times.
Here's the complete Chaconne played by Gidon Kremer, if anybody's interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJPVnJ8m-Y