[lbo-talk] getting back to criticism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Dec 12 18:32:41 PST 2010


On Dec 12, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:


> You can read it here - the essay itself starts on page 47 and it's not
> very long.
>
> http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/cardew_stockhausen.pdf
>
> In a nutshell (- and I merely report, you decide):

My god, that's silly.

I yield to no one in my contempt for what Mencken called that flapdoodle blowing out of the east. But, really, should one hold Bach in contempt for the Christianity of so much of his music?

Doug



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