Posted on 04/02/2011 2:30:32 AM PDT by Scanian
The Analogue Counter-Revolution, Part 6 Part 1: Step Away from the Computer Part 2: iPad, Therefore I Am Part 3: Life between the Cracks Part 4: The Tyranny of Google Part 5: Digital Dark Age Ahead?
Bach is singing.
Well, from his grave at least. A local Bach Society presented its annual concert recently, a fine affair featuring selections from several composers, including Bach and Beethoven. The setting at the small chapel was perfect, and the musicians were first rate.
Yet, the concert was only an hour long. Since half a dozen selections were featured, most ran only a few minutes, making them selections of selections, or "snippets." That is a shame, for all of the pieces were meant by their composers to be heard in their entirety. It's like going to an art show and only viewing a small corner of a Rembrandt or Picasso.
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There is a great deal of talk these days about the death of the music industry, at least as we know it. The plight is well known -- new technologies, specifically, the digital format and the Internet which facilitates its dissemination, are undermining the music industry's ability to charge for their product. People just aren't buying records anymore.
Well, that is not entirely true. Old People (and by that we mean anyone over thirty) still buy records. But this is seen increasingly as a habit of age; over thirties have always bought records (on vinyl or CD), and it is, for them, more than just an economic phenomenon; it is a process, the very manner in which they have always enjoyed music.
These people enjoy looking forward to a new record from a favorite artist.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Digitally remastered, no doubt.
Digital information technology is doing to media distribution just what the typewriter did to the fountain pen: rendering it an heirloom.
We evolve.”
Time is a timer.
Time and Human Nature having been devised by God, interact to guarantee the outcome toward which we are heading. The only variable in the stream is Acts of Faith, but the outcome in the physical world is foretold. Free will. Choose wisely.
I still buy 78’s. In fact, we still spin 45’s, 33’s and even them new fangled CD’s. Of course, one must never (ever) pay retail; everything is used book store fare, garage sales and estate sales. Over time you’ll get everything you really want and the process of waiting and hunting helps to clarify your tastes and reasoning for making a purchase. Hollywood or Wallstreet have no grip on this household.
We've had 50-60 years of creeping marxism trying to push us to examine the ugliest parts of our souls while purposely wiping out the whole western civilization's notion of beauty.
We need to reverse this trend. I hope it's not too late.
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