Musicosophia, the art of creative listening

What sparkling idea Pete

 

Been having a think about this, how about bringing the Classical image into the 21 Century.
This would go a long way to help dispel the Elitist panderings that often surround it.
I was thinking along the lines of 'Never mind the Buzzcock's, we could have Simon Rattle and John Williams as Captains with maybe guest Computer mock ups of Guess the artist?
Maybe 'Stomping with Schubert' or 'Sod Beethoven give us Brahmas'
Plus we'd need a Jovial host to get things off swimmingly Aled Jones?. Just a thought....

 

Oooh, look - myths #4 and #3 in the space of two sentences.

 

pete h

i did'nt realise you were a music guru yourself pete ....
when's your book out or are you gonna do an intellectual uni course for peeps.

 

I'm a dabbler, nothing more than that. We've got some proper gurus in the Classical forum here, but they don't often venture into the hifi room.

 

And I should just add BTW that anyone who's interested in what actual musicologists look like or do might like to look out Berkeley's Richard Taruskin or Princeton's Carolyn Abbate, to name two individuals well-known in the field. Yes, there really are people engaged in the academic study of music, and no, I haven't actually read anything by them.