--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My view is that the claims Sting makes for his CD > are false and misleading > especially to an audience new to this repertoire.
Has anyone ever considered that for Sting to perform the music as many of us think he should - i.e. the same way we want to do it ourselves - would in fact be for him selling out - i.e. changing his style to please a particular set of people? Take it for what it is: Sting singing songs; songs that happen to be close to our collective heart, but songs none the less. I don't think anyone out there is going to be misled. People who like Sting are going to buy the album because its a Sting album, NOT because its a John Dowland album to be carefully listened to in order to carefully appreciate the minute subtleties of this heretofore unknown renaissance composer's philosophy of life. As for the claims of HIPper than HIP, we're the only ones who care at all. Classical musicians (which in this case includes us) are the only ones who think of CDs as being classified by composer or genre anyway. For instance, have you ever seen a Madonna ablum entitled, "Works Composed by Contemporary Songwriters Who's Names are Relatively Unknown Outside the Music Business?" Nope, its just the new Madonna album which is going to sell even if she sings "Twinkle, twinkle little star." For what its worth, I'm glad Sting's doing something more worthwhile. Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
