Posted on 08/26/2014 9:41:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
Digital music is to live music what movies are to plays.
that can be taken a couple of ways, but it is accurate.
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Natural consequence of demanding & leveraging excessive wages. “A thing is worth only what another is willing to give for it” ... and live performances are not, to a large & growing percentage of potential audiences, worth >10x a CD or video.
My approach to this one is from the point of view of an audiophile.
Few home systems approach live sound (that’s “approach”). No (that’s zero, nada) large auditorium audio system I’ve heard has sounds that I would even class as “not that bad at all.”
I stand to be corrected, of course, but for now I’d avoid any “sampled orchestra” performance just as I’d avoid coming anywhere near to the Obamadork
A digital recording of John Cage’s 4’33” is remarkably close the original performance!
Simple Solution. Ban Music.
(am I turning Muslim ?)
I seldom attend live performances any more. My wife and I are opera fans, and used to be season ticket holders at Houston Grand Opera. We stopped going due to the fact that almost all new productions of operas are revisionist crap that are almost never set in the proper period or place. I prefer to watch Blu-rays or DVDs of better performances at home.
Those live bands on the late night shows always seem goofy and expensive. Yes I know music is needed to time the next break, but a computer can do it. Goodby
I think the bands in the studio at the late night programs are there to keep the studio audience “buzzed” or “electric”. Don’t want the studio audience to be less than lively.
Q: Which is better? A real drummer or a drum machine?
A: A drum machine. It keeps better time and doesn’t sleep with your girlfriend.
I agree, but for the masses close is good enough.
Where are the Patrons in today’s 1% population to support those institutions that only they can afford? The Koch brothers build hospitals. Why don’t the art loving rich give to the opera instead of buying art for private consumption?
The modern art auction market can be a way to store money in other physical assets that sometimes even go up in value.
Paying to subsidize welfare to stage million dollar opera shows is a money losing proposition.
Just got back from Boston. I heard the 1870 organ in St. Catherine of Siena on Warren Street. All mechanical. They are repairing it. Here’s the website.
http://stmarystcatherine.org/restoring-st-marys-pipe-organ/organ-gallery/
It’s called philanthropy. Gates and Buffet and others say they are not passing their wealth to offspring. But they are just putting it into foundations that apparently don’t include preservation of those institutions.
I went to the local philharmonic a few times and I don’t care to go back. The seats are too small and there isn’t a lot going on from a visual standpoint.
Besides I worked in public TV and sat through plenty of music productions. Digital media is for me. My wife likes to go. I pass.
I confess that I have not spent money to see an actual symphonic orchestra in many decades - I was a huge audiophile in the mi-70’s to early 80’s.
I’ve been in a lot of “bar” bands since I started playing bass in ‘98 and find that the better I get, the less I appreciate live music, unless the musicians are truly talented/skilled.
The dirty secret is that the classical genre just isn’t what it was before radio and TV. No type of live performance is.
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