Death of Rock 'n' Roll

“Pure love” must be what all those priest are doing to those poor boys. 

schubert- you are 80+ years old stupid!  I would rather die than give up music, even for one day.  Music has filled my life since I was 3,  Last week I performed for 350 people at the AJU university and tonight I was the videographer of a performance many talented performers including Tovah Feldshuh, Hila Plitman, Emily Bear, Zinovy Goro and Mark Kashper together with the 25th anniversary of the 50 member Los Angeles Jewish Symphony (with many dignitaries present) under conductor Dr. Noreen Green.   When your life revolves around music, you don't take a "vacation" from it.  Its in my lifeblood.  Its part of my culture and religion, music is always present at times of joy and grieving, happy and sad music.  But always music.

I suspect the soundtracks for Forest Gump, Easy Rider, Full Metal Jacket, Goodfellows and Casino wouldn’t work too well with classical music.

schubert 

I never heard a note of classical till I was over 30 ... I am sure, very sure, that if that had that had not happened I would never , with my 8th degree education , got degrees from top US and German universities , married a beautiful educated women , and thanks to Bach, become a Christian ... I was always smart but Classical music gave me something I never had ,
"Good Taste ", without which intelligence is rather lame .And it does it in all elements of life , not just music ! No other form of music
can do that, some do just the opposite .That is why when I hear , "oh, its a just a matter of taste " I think yes, good taste and bad taste .

What's interesting about this sort of elitism is that there are similar adherents for just about every genre of music. The notion that a certain genre is more pure, more intelligent, more tasteful, more worthy, is just a consequence of cultural bias and ignorance.

Well spoken cleeds2. I have nothing to add.