"Our father," boom boom boom, "who art in heaven," boom boom boom...
Just doesn't work.
--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] class and classical music
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 7:53 AM
>
> On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:34 AM, Joanna wrote:
>
> > From where I sit, music begins with dance (Bach's
> gigues, gavottes, etc., Mozart's minuets, etc.) and dies a
> slow but sure death the greater its distance from dance.
>
> Beethoven is very un-dancey - Balanchine said you couldn't
> choreograph to his music because it was so complete in
> itself. And it just doesn't get any better than Beethoven.
> And Schoenberg? Even Bach's "dance" music is a long way from
> what people can cavort to. So I can't say I agree with
> this.
>
> Doug
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