Re: Arrrrrrrrrrrrggggg!!

From: Beth (BethStone21_at_hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 04:32:37 GMT

Annie wrote:
> Well...ca ne fait rien, Betov. Surrealism is considered
> bankrupt and retrograde by most of today's 'critics.'

Ah, yes...and we can so trust the word of the long-winded over-adjectivised
buzzword-touting elitist modern-day "critic", can't we?

> It might be useful to impressionist composers...but there
> aren't many impressionists around anymore.

More's the pity; Claude Debussy effectively "invented" 20th century music,
by many opinions...a typical Frenchman, though...except for as yet
qualifying as "genius", there are many "personality traits" that sometimes
remind one of our Rene:

"Debussy didn't believe in God...
He didn't believe in the establishment...
He didn't believe in Bourgoise convention...
He didn't believe in Beethoven or Wagner...
He believed in...Debussy...

Debussy understood that a work of art...
Or an effort to create beauty...
Was always regarded by some people...
...as a _personal attack_...

He hated to appear in public...
He hated to conduct...
He hated to play the piano at concerts...
He preferred cats to people...

No-one was ever sure...
Whether the spite with which Debussy armed his volatile sensibilities
Were activated by a _savage insensitivity_...

...or by the Holy Egoism...of Genius"

[ "The Holy Egoism of Genius", The Art of Noise, "The Seduction of Claude
Debussy" (lyrics narrated by actor John Hurt)...an interesting
album...pioneers (along with Kraftwerk) of the 21st century "electronic"
style of music, paying homage to a pioneer of the music of the century
before...showing that though some might think modern electronic music to be
simply random "white noise" that there is a connection and "progression" to
it all...Debussy's contemporaries no doubt thought the same of his apparent
"randomness" too...but, then, well, there are always "some people" who
regard "a work of art or an effort to create beauty" as being a "personal
attack", yes? Rene and yourself, for example ;) ]

Beth :)