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mmcirvinIt also occurs to me that the cult of Mozart is still so intense that you could easily be put off classical music entirely just on the basis of not liking Mozart.
Some years ago, there was a discussion on a.r.k in which Jorn Barger mentioned that he'd tried listening to classical radio for a while, and on the basis of that, pronounced classical music "emotionally puerile" and further suggested that people who claim to like it are "twits" who have deluded themselves for pernicious class-based reasons. But from his descriptions of what he heard, I strongly suspect that he just overdosed on Mozart.
And: ...probably on the whole attitude of commercial classical radio. Granted that Jorn did and said everything in his, er, inimitable Jornish way, if my sole exposure to classical music was through WCRB, with its plummy announcers, self-congratulation at its own refinement and emphasis on the "relaxing", I'd probably regard it as a art form for twits as well.
Some years ago, there was a discussion on a.r.k in which Jorn Barger mentioned that he'd tried listening to classical radio for a while, and on the basis of that, pronounced classical music "emotionally puerile" and further suggested that people who claim to like it are "twits" who have deluded themselves for pernicious class-based reasons. But from his descriptions of what he heard, I strongly suspect that he just overdosed on Mozart.
And: ...probably on the whole attitude of commercial classical radio. Granted that Jorn did and said everything in his, er, inimitable Jornish way, if my sole exposure to classical music was through WCRB, with its plummy announcers, self-congratulation at its own refinement and emphasis on the "relaxing", I'd probably regard it as a art form for twits as well.