Re: Blind Spots
Posted by Ralph Moore on October 16, 2020, 12:45 pm, in reply to "
Blind Spots"
Dieter, the thing about publicly declaring one's blind spots and prejudices is that usually arouses the ire of some devotee of the music you have excoriated; for some reason, to many people merely voicing such opinions is tantamount to defiling their grandmother. For instance, like Nick, I simply love some of your pet hates - early Schoenberg, Gerontius, Mendelssohn, Toscanini - and am baffled by your aversion to them, but completely share your dislike of Liszt and Messiaen. I would add to my list (Liszt?) of loathing anything by Britten, Bartok's string quartets, everything Bax wrote except perhaps Tintagel, Wolff's and Brahms' songs, and most of that airy-fairy British folk-song stuff - and so it goes.
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