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On 3/14/2011 4:47 PM, Edward Dolan wrote:
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On 3/13/2011 2:03 PM, Edward Dolan wrote:
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I fear even the standard repertoire of every orchestra in the land is
becoming increasingly irrelevant. Ever notice how the audience seems to
be
made up exclusively of older folks like myself. Where are the young
people?

They either have not been exposed to good music, or have been
indoctrinated by our anti-intellectual culture to hate anything but
lowest
common denominator schlock.

Why classical music is in decline is open to question, but the fact
remains
that it is. Andre Jute, a former music critic now living in Ireland,
could
probably tell us why.

I am sure The André Jute could provide us with an *opinion*.

You do not get to be a music critic for a publisher without having some
credibility.

How could any person with developed intellect not love this, especially
the concluding Alleluia fugue for soprano and trumpet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKtLL7g7Cv4

It is church music. Our culture is now almost totally secular. All
baroque
music is more and more for museums, not for live concerts that people
will
pay an admission fee to attend.

ShartanX has just uploaded the Beethoven Missa Solemnis. Highly
recommended!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgT5E..._order&list=UL

Interesting - a mass written as a concert piece [1].

[1] Op. 123 is liturgically incorrect and too long, too difficult, and
requires too large of forces for use as an actual service mass. [2]

[2] Of course, much the same is true of BWV 232.

But that is what I like about it. It is indeed a concert piece. I simply
hate most sacred music. All that blather about God sickens me, no matter how
magnificent the music. Mozart and Schubert also wrote masses that were more
concert pieces than church music.

The fatal flaw of Bach for me was his religiosity. In fact, it is what ruins
most baroque music for me.

--
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota