Posts by Jan Farr
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I don't see every leaf on the tree out my window, and remember all of them. I see a tree, which is an abstraction, a generalization, a forgetting of the detail. Some images are retained with great clarity, but not all.
Ben, I think you should be reciting this glorious stuff on Concert Radio.
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(yes I am being nasty, but honestly, if you keep saying things that are basically untrue...)
Nasty? No! More like a breath of fresh air.
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Possibly even something original :-). I live in hope.
As I recall, you were the one implying that the future could be spun from a vacuum, not me.
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Try it. Come up with something COMPLETELY original. Go on! No cheating now - no using an established language - or alphabet or anything passe like that.
Define original.
So you can't then?
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That is the fallacy of induction.
Try it. Come up with something COMPLETELY original. Go on! No cheating now - no using an established language - or alphabet or anything passe like that.
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Who said that?
Well, I approvingly quoted Jan Farr as saying that CONCERT music is serious, rather than 'classical' music.
And I really think that's an important distinction. People seem to have run off with the idea that we're only talking old world classical music when we're defending Concert Radio.
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Just in terms of some of the judgements being made about cultural value/cultural capital (evoking Bourdieu) eg classical music is 'serious'.
Who said that?
I was attempting to avoid naming names but Jan Farr did so some time back,
I know it's me but I'm buggered if I can find that comment.
Perhaps it's me too, because I'm buggered if I can remember making it. I don't even know what it means. I think I did say that you had to pay attention to it or something of the sort.
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True, but I'd also not particularly like to live in a society that prioritized the past over the future too much.
Actually, Ben, as others have said before, there's nowhere for the future to arise from but the past. And is anyone in this debate actually yearning for the past at the expense of the present? If so, I've missed it.
I'd argue that works by Charles Goldie and Peter McIntyre are somewhat more relevant to our nation than the Well Tempered Clavier.
Danyl perhaps when you argue about the science it sounds more knowledgeable and contemporary.
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I think you're doing just fine on your own, Paul.
If you go through your entire gamut of stereotypes, you're sure to be right some of the time.
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Who is to say that music 'that makes you think' (or whatever else that statement is meant to mean) is more worthy of a nationwide Government-funded station than music you can shake your hips to?
Nobody that I know of - but you have listen harder.