tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post7369266507256575004..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Walking on water wasn't built in a day Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-52599599450437515282014-08-10T23:27:16.318+01:002014-08-10T23:27:16.318+01:00In all fairness, I think there might at least some...In all fairness, I think there might at least some degree of interest laying dormant in people with "already formed tastes". I can count myself among the converts - discovering classical music in my early 20s - and I did have some friends who shared similar path (sometimes coming to the classical in their mid-teens, sometimes a little bit later). <br /><br />The problem, as I see it, is classical music stand-offish attitude to a certain subtype of such cases. Sure, we were very welcome to participate - as a consumers. But classical world had very little to offer to us, as a potential co-creators. My friend had a quite serious ambitions as a composer (certainly not unheard of - I'd point to Alberic Magnard as a very competent case of a late-starter), while I wanted to pursue performance in a slightly deeper manner than customary with a later beginning.<br /><br />Perhaps that's one aspect to the whole dispute. Every other music genre offers a point of entry for people of both persuasions - "consumers" and "co-creators" - no matter your age (at least up to certain point). While classical allows late-comers only passive participation (or unsatisfactory active one - that, of course, depends on a place of residence in broader sense), leaving any sort of developing "creative" ambition for a hermetic, elite class of "wunderkinds", music students, and the like - future professionals following the well-trodden paths. Yet, participation as an amateur can feel a little bit disconcerting at times - like being talked down to by an older - no doubt well-meaning - relative. You are indeed loved and accepted in the family, but you shall not cross our tried modes of behaviour - for your own good, of course.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00686759271373301119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-24892119873096278812014-08-10T13:28:02.104+01:002014-08-10T13:28:02.104+01:00Paul Dickens comments via Facebook:
I was reflect...Paul Dickens comments via Facebook:<br /><br />I was reflecting on this and your last post, Bob, and my own early musical education. I have vivid memories being aged about 7 being taught musical structure and form (!) at the Blue Coat School Birmingham by the music teacher, Mr Beswick using "light music" - the Dambuster's March and Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony. He took the view that knowing how music was structured at that age would help us be intelligent listeners later in life - I agree!Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com