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To: Borges
I’m guessing you would still dislike it if he was pure as the driven snow.

It's possible; but not because I'm a religious bigot. For instance, I enjoy the music of one of the worst creeps out of pop culture, Frank Sinatra. But I do think the deeper levels of a composer's soul are revealed in their aspirational music, which, when it is devoted to the higher realms, is mathematically crystalline like Bach's. Sinatra, on the other hand, was just trying to entertain people who party in lounges.

100 posted on 05/21/2013 12:18:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There can be no dialogue with the prince of this world." -- Francis)
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To: Albion Wilde

I can’t imagine Sinatra as one of the ‘worst creeps of pop culture’. Have you seen the news lately?

Anyway Bach’s music has the character that it does because of the time he was writing. He was born almost 130 years before Wagner.


102 posted on 05/21/2013 12:30:46 PM PDT by Borges
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