tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post4338800236672041366..comments2024-01-08T14:21:37.465-08:00Comments on Infinite Art Tournament: The Library Book Sale CD Trove XMichael5000http://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-82550626840542483112010-01-29T18:26:46.231-08:002010-01-29T18:26:46.231-08:00Hear, hear, DrSchnell!Hear, hear, DrSchnell!Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415787787176723318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10779294.post-28196424245811342902010-01-28T09:14:07.126-08:002010-01-28T09:14:07.126-08:00I never understood the snooty aversion to the big...I never understood the snooty aversion to the big T-man by the classical music cogitaters out there. Since when is catchy melody in music a "superficial attraction?" It's like literary critics who disdain anything that stoops to the pedestrian device of plot. He IS big, bombastic, melodramatic, over-emotive, heart-on-the-sleevey. Yes! That's the point! I know he's manipulating me while listening (and playing) and hooray for that! He's goddamned great at it! He's one composer who can predictably create a visceral physical emotional reaction in me (if not actual weepiness, then certainly waves of emotional something-or-other, chills up and down the spine, etc. etc.). If people don't like that, well, go listen to yer intellectual jibberjabber. I'll take Tchaikovsky anyday. And the 4th Symphony, well, it don't get much finer than that.DrSchnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13428753570121627382noreply@blogger.com