You just HAD to be a little turd in saying that didn't you? Couldn't you just move on in a civilised fashion???
The eloquent elegance here is mesmerising; I would not dare follow suit..
There were plenty of people who actually listened to the music and found it complete sh*t - myself included.
Yes, there are people who have listened to this music and found it not to their liking; perfectly OK with that. Likewise, anyone taking serious music serious would listen to it in an open-minded fashion to find out if it is to their liking or not, and perhaps in the latter case come back to it from time to time to hear if, due to growth in experience or evolution of taste, perhaps start to like it. Do tell us, by the way, what pieces of Sorabji you did listen to in an attentive stance for the entire duration of the piece(s).
Please stop saying there are people who don't listen to music
I will certainly say there are people who do not listen to music in general (and I do count such people among those who have some music blaring in the background, or on their ears, or something else without
listening to it). Quite a few of the comments against Sorabji's music in this thread are expressed in ways that make it clear the commentors haven't listened to the music, and do not intent to; they just want to bash Sorabji's music on principle. Which is not only silly, it only proves they are impossible to take seriously in any fashion, though they present their polemics like it’s divine truth emanating from their rear ends.
we're all musicians here.
Nope. I’m not.
Some of us however seem to think there's meaning in depth in something I can only qualify as 'audible diarrhoea'.
I think you meant to start that sentence with “Some of
you”? You seem perplexed by the idea that it would be possible that, despite you not liking some music, and having expressed such sentiment in so beautifully crafted fulsome elegance, some people not just keep listening to that music and actually find it in any way attractive. Could you explain why you feel that the worth of any music is only and wholly defined by whatever you feel about it?
Certainly this, or any music, can seem to be without any ‘depth’ to anyone, and such is perfectly acceptable and inevitable. But while we all hear the same music, we all respond to it differently. Such is called ‘taste’. And yes, despite my limited capacities as listener, I do not just think there is depth in something you can only qualify as ‘audible diarrhoea’, for me there is depth of expression and suchlike in Sorabji’s music. That you don’t hear it, fine by me; no doubt there is music you enjoy immensely that would grate over my senses. But the idea that it is nonsense that other people like some music while you do not like it is nothing but evidence you, sadly, never grow up beyond the point where you should have learned that you are neither the centre of the world, nor its yardstick to which all things are measured. An infantile stance that, most worryingly, is spreading like wildfire in the Western world, where aggressive snowflakes attack anyone daring to not agree with them.
Regretfully, the kind of know it all wankers that defend this bile hold the non Sorabjians in contempt.
I certainly a) am no ‘know it all’; there is not a day that passes without me in some way or other being frustrated with myself because I lack knowledge and/or understanding in various matters, including music, including the music of Sorabji (and many others), and b) do most certainly not hold people who dislike Sorabji’s music ‘in contempt’ (if they listened to his music and didn’t/don’t like it, fine by me) though I do hold people who sh*t on people who don’t see things their narrow and prejudiced ways
Anyone who doesnt share their devotion to this obscure Zoroastrian queer, is unfit to gather up the crochets from under their table.
I am not a Sorabji ‘devotee’ or any composer’s; I just happen to like his music a lot. I’m not a ‘devotee’ of anything or anyone. So no one share's my 'devotion' to anything. Devotion is for the feeble-minded who cannot or willnot think about what they hear or read or whatever but merely follow other feeble-minded nincompoops because doing their own thinking is too hard or too much work. I prefer to do my own thinking, difficult and uncomfortable as such at times is.
Btw, in my experience, the use of derogatory slang is usually done to gloss over the user’s own insecurity in matters. I note you use the term ‘queer’ in a sense that is derogatory intended; interesting to come from someone who has his own thread on how he proceeds in bloating his own masculine physique, inclusive of pictures of how he does so in the company of other sweaty men doing the same.
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