At 4/11/2006 02:41 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
>But with music (and often the associated arts of ballet and stage shows)
>the behavior is entirely backwards. (I have an extended theory about this,
>which should appear in Greywolf Press sometime this summer, and in another
>piece on New Music Box also this summer.)
>
>There is only so much time to play and to listen. And though it does not
>follow logically that time spent on earlier music is time lost to new
>music, it does follow psychologically. People will play what there is to
>play. Playing earlier music -- especially Baroque music -- is easier to do.
So this is about performers and not about listeners?
I was thinking that you were leaving out listener preferences, but, perhaps
you are only talking about live performances.
Phil Daley < AutoDesk >
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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