[F_MINOR] Legends and the people who love them

[Nessie Russell <nessierussell@YAHOO.CA>]

I received the following on another list.  I thought
perhaps it might generate some conversation on this
list as well.  Some of us geared into the last
sentence - "The world of legend worship is patrolled
and inhabited by very sad people, almost all of them
men."  I have to wonder if the last part of the
sentence is fair.  Is the first part fair? Any
thoughts?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1193957,00.html

 /excerpt
 I'm proud to be an anorak
 Worshipping classical music legends is obsessive,
 but exhilarating

 Martin Kettle
 Saturday April 17, 2004
 The Guardian

 Music would collapse without its legends. Take the
 legendary performers
 away and almost every type of music would be
 duller and poorer. Delete
 the legendary recordings from the shops and sales
 of CDs would plummet.
 Whether it's Sviatoslav Richter's legendary Sofia
 recital of 1958, Bix
 Beiderbecke's legendary 1927 solo on Singing the
 Blues or Kurt Cobain's
legendary 1994 unplugged version of About a Girl,
 the legends keep
 music alive.

 The trouble with legends is that they
 simultaneously attract and repel.
 A casually overheard reference to Jess Stacy's
 legendary piano solo in
 Sing, Sing, Sing in the Benny Goodman 1938
 Carnegie Hall concert
 consumed me until I tracked down the recording -
 and if you have heard
 it, you will know why. But there's a serious
 downside. The world of
 legend worship is patrolled and inhabited by very
 sad people, almost
 all of them men. .................
 /excerpt


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