Hi Schubert
I like a good argument as well as the next guy but so far your argument is going all over the board and for me at least has entered the area of entertaining, man am I relieved, I hate to get too serious on line. There really is no problem whatsoever in what YOU consider good music and good taste and wisdom. I have no issue at all with that. The reason you raised my hackles (past not now)is your diminishment of other tastes if they don't happen to coincide with yours or your revered esteemed "best minds" or the Avant Garde Jazz pianist in-law that has "met them all", or so it seems. You have been given an opportunity to clarify your controversial comments and so far you have "elevated" yourself to a position above the fray that you are causing.
NOW you're going off on a different tangent and speaking of Serious Music. Presuming you are speaking of the evolution of Western Music and what is agreed to as serious. Experts (best minds as you call them) rarely agree on everything even among themselves. Your last statement bears out my suspicions of your previous comments, particularly the latter ones concerning wisdom. It seems to me at least, you are letting us mere mortals know that to elevate our awareness that there is some kind of quantifiable method of determining what is great vs. ordinary. If one misses the boat, or makes a bad taste choices there is a correlation that this will quite possibly transfer over to other bad choices in their lives? LOL, really I did after your last post. This is so preposterous that this thread has now become quite entertaining to me. I think I get you now Schubert, I really do. One question, please answer me as you have been most neglectful in requests to clarify your words, (The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword, IME the one thing more powerful than music,) how do you quantify and filter good taste in your quest for the best and might I suggest "musical purity"? Do you have a list, a formula, a process for determining or do you rely on experts that meet your criteria? A list would be helpful also, thanks for your anticipated cooperation!
