On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:37 PM, <chriswi...@yahoo.com> <chriswi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry to be a > downer but I'm afraid, despite the awesome technical > abilities of many performers today, that the CG world > is slipping from the heights it attained in the mid > 20th century once more into the cultural wasteland of > vapidity. Just goes to show that awesome technical ability doth not culture make. I don't think it's just the guitar players (although I agree that the CG world is more bland nowadays than it was in the old days). I think classical music in general has slipped from the "sad heights" it occupied in the early to mid 20th C. IMO the more that traditional culture slips through our fingers, the more we rely upon note machines, human or otherwise, to carry our music for us. It's a sad state of affairs. Personally, I blame Paganini. ;-) DR dlu...@verizon.net -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
