On Dec 9, 2009, at 5:41 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> Adorno on the "scribbler," in 1938:
>
> "If Sibelius is to be considered a good composer, then we shall have
> to disregard all of the criteria historically used to evaluate
> music...
Not just snobbery but stupid arrogant snobbery. The only permissible objective, historical, criteria to evaluate music are the judgments of performing musicians and musically literate audiences, to be confirmed (or rediscovered) a minimum of two generations after the death of the composer. The music of Sibelius, by those standards, stands up very well. But Adorno's?
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos