>>> Is this a modern phenomenon?
>> Yes.
>
> It absolutely is not. There are plenty of stories about the classical
> masters. Mozart was a prize wise-ass; Beethoven had his moments of
> driving away his friends and supporters; Handel once threatened to
> throw a soprano through a window (one account has it that he actually
> tried to do it). Gesualdo murdered his wife's lover; one of the
> Gaultiers was stupid enough to bad-mouth the English king, and was
> taken to the Tower for a time. Etc., etc. Do you think everybody was
> oh-so very nice to each other at some unspecified time of the past, and
> that the only words spoken in anger, arrogance, paranoia, whatever,
> were spoken in the 20th century? Come on, Roman, that's silly.
>
>>> Is it a phenomenon at all?
>> Yes. Pop (unlike classical) is usually based on collective effort.
>
> Your curt replies are given without due thought. Classical music not a
> collective effort? Of course it is! What good is a composer without
> the means to realize his music? There are horror stories about
> soloists and conductors, as well as composers, that would fill volumes.
>
> DR
David, you haven't given is sufficient thought, we are talking different
things. Relationships between composers and hired musicians are not the same
thing as a relationship within a cooperative, such as R&R band.
RT
