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Hello
There already was a topic to almost throw me
back into the list (GG & Bjork), but now it's a passed thread.
Now I am back to greet everyone, particularly
Elmer, who seems to be sort of engine animating the list. I never
answered his question of Gorecki - more than a year ago, shame on me - but I've been the silent list-reader all the
time.
As to the Evils Listening Classical, I'd add
another theory: classical music is generally claimed sort of thing for the
intelligent, so authors and movie-makers use it like spectacles worn by
a "doctor" in an Aspirin TV commercial - to convince us of his power of
brains... A question is whether it's a result of the authors and
screenplay-writers' wrong ideas about Bach or their correct ideas about how
spectators think of it. The spectacles in commercials do their work, why not the
music?
Can't remember any closer details, but in some
old Polish films taking the topic of WW2 there were Gestapo and Wehrmacht
officers showing off their higher culture playing the piano. As we see, this
idea is widespread.
But my candidate for Evil Listeners Number
1 is Alec, "Clockwork Orange". Though, I admit, he is an example of a
thoughtless evil guy, not of a "brainer", so the Classical-Evil linkage
shouldn't work in his case. The fact it does confirms its strenghth. On the
other hand, if you know some facts about
Burgess, the writer considered himself to be a connesseur of
the classical music and he obsessively needed to express it.
Greetings to everybody,
Przemek Dolowy, Poland
PS. I have no Gorecki albums on my own, but a
few months ago I was on a concert, there were, among others, his short songs for
a choir. Close to heaven!
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