i do understand the combined effect of responses from both me and
another that got you upset. i feel pretty much the same as you do
about music. the few times i put the piano on as background while
entertaining, i felt like i was putting myself in the same catagory
as considering music as just background. the performances are
recorded and there is no harm to the piano or the recordings playing
them for an unappreciative audience but still i would feel guilty of
some sort of junkification of the music. when i do play the piano
for others, i expect them to listen and this is rarely the case. i
think that people who fully listen to music are pretty rare today.
even people who seem passionate about their music usually listen to
it while distracted by a noisy environment. i have just a few
friends who pay full attention the music.
On 6/27/2013 8:36 AM, Horatio Kemeny
wrote:
\ufffd
Sorry, I do get annoyed when the greatest composers in
the history of the world get bundled together and labelled
"background junk" -- it tends, in my opinion, to lessen
the forthcoming argument, whatever it may be\ufffd but I
suppose, especially in the case where the initial argument
was something along the lines of "Why would anyone else be
so stupid as to when clearly I know what
I'm doing".
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