On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:02:14 +0100, "Wally" wrote:

Don Pearce wrote:

This is getting silly. If you really go to concerts with no interest
in emotional involvement with what the composer and musicians are
trying to say, then I'm sorry, but you may as well save your money.

Oh, I'm interested in emotional involvement, but any emotions I feel at a
concert, or when listening to reproduced music, are entirely my own. I don't
presume to be inside the heads of those that are creating the music, and I
don't see how they can be inside mine.

The music is designed to stimulate emotional responses and the
musicians do their best to convey that.

Ever been a musician?

Yup. I played lead guitar in blues bands.

Ever felt what the audience felt when you played something? I haven't. When
I play, I feel *my* emotions - and what, or how, I play changes in
accordance with those emotions - each feeds the other. If what I do triggers
the same emotional response in someone else, or if they get some other
response, what difference does it make to me?

So you are quite happy to see the audience giggling during a sad song?
I think you need to be a bit more connected than that.


Both - it is th "Idios" bit that carries that meaning.

So, you're saying that his idiosyncratic point of view is an unhelpful
paradigm because it applies to him, and him alone? If so, then what is his
"idiosyncratic point of view"?

No, I've been round the circle once - I'm not up for another circuit.

d

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