Jazz

[Justin Schwartz]

Well, since you pray; I will deign to reply. Having appointed myself chief 
musicologist, on the basis of my extensive lack of educatuion in the area, I 
gave about two minute';s thought to what I deemed to be the main features of 
the kind of music sold in classical music catalogues and played on classical 
music stations, and that is what I came up with. And whom am I to say? I am 
the autodicat self-appointed musicologist-in-chief. always glad to answer 
prayers. --jks


>
>
> > But classical music it's not; at its best, it doesn't involve more or 
>less
> > precise renditions of more or less complex pieces from standard scores
> > produced by performers who creativity is a matter of fidelity to 
>someone's
> >
>
>And why, pray tell, should that be the criteria for a music being 
>considered
>"classical?"
>
>Leo Casey
>United Federation of Teachers
>260 Park Avenue South
>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
>
>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
>It never has, and it never will.
>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
>-- Frederick Douglass --
>
>

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