Comments on: Music Manifesto: Help or Hindrance? http://theomniscientmussel.com/2007/10/music-manifesto-help-or-hindrance/ Classical Music & Culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:56:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Miss Mussel http://theomniscientmussel.com/2007/10/music-manifesto-help-or-hindrance/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Miss Mussel Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:18:05 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=146#comment-114 Many thanks for your kind words, Doug. Regarding things life-changing...perhaps it all depends on how you define the experience. Does every choice/encounter/experience change the course of a life even if only minutely? Those with fatalist/Calvinist leanings would say that life is already mapped out, so it is impossible for any event to be life changing. Once again, Miss Mussel finds herself wandering the land between camps, sampling bits of both tables but coming away without any real answers. Many thanks for your kind words, Doug.

Regarding things life-changing…perhaps it all depends on how you define the experience. Does every choice/encounter/experience change the course of a life even if only minutely? Those with fatalist/Calvinist leanings would say that life is already mapped out, so it is impossible for any event to be life changing.

Once again, Miss Mussel finds herself wandering the land between camps, sampling bits of both tables but coming away without any real answers.

]]> By: Doug Palmer http://theomniscientmussel.com/2007/10/music-manifesto-help-or-hindrance/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Doug Palmer Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:20:12 +0000 http://theomniscientmussel.com/?p=146#comment-112 I have trouble with the phrase "Art (or anything) changes life" I have looked, read, written, listened, and now attempted to participate in "Art" yet as I look back on "Life" all I see is the usual, no discontinuities. Just the same creaking ride on the big conveyor belt to the edge. My volunteer work at the SSO's "Soundbridge" convinced me that there was no way that "Mozart makes anyone smart" Ummm....Hitler came after Beethoven' 9th. Hitler was, let's face it, "business as usual" historically, old testament stuff. Ahhh... Your Lady Catherine be Burgh is the person (are the people) on the board of your local symphony who decide what us peons are supposed to worship as "Great art" Too nice a day to bother you with more of this crap. Love your site, your intelligent opinions, questions and insights. Keep up the good work. I have trouble with the phrase “Art (or anything) changes life”
I have looked, read, written, listened, and now attempted to participate in “Art” yet as I look back on “Life” all I see is the usual, no discontinuities. Just the same creaking ride on the big conveyor belt to the edge.
My volunteer work at the SSO’s “Soundbridge” convinced me that there was no way that “Mozart makes anyone smart”
Ummm….Hitler came after Beethoven’ 9th.
Hitler was, let’s face it, “business as usual” historically, old testament stuff.
Ahhh… Your Lady Catherine be Burgh is the person (are the people) on the board of your local symphony who decide what us peons are supposed to worship as “Great art”

Too nice a day to bother you with more of this crap. Love your site, your intelligent opinions, questions and insights. Keep up the good work.

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