Re: musical genres

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

So Bernstein's Mass gets lumped into the same category as John Cage- and if
I decide that I hate modern classical on the basis of John Cage (not me
personally) then I can assume the Bernstein will be similar?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "I. Oppenheim" <i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: musical genres


> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
>
> > Judeo-Christian religious broadway classical rock
> >
> > Last I looked neither Tower nor CD Universe had any
> > of these categories for sale.
>
> Because these are not musical genres, but expressions
> of your own idiosyncratic evaluation of certain
> musical works...
>
> To be quite honest, I haven't got the slightest idea
> what could be the meaning of something like
> "Judeo-Christian religious broadway classical rock."
> I think I stick to "modern classical."
>
>
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