on audience arrogance
Feb. 5th, 2007 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearsorry. i'm a pig-headed elitist arrogant jackass, but THIS attitude just takes the cake...
classical_music: when is "classical" not?:
The day that composers choose to take into account the commercial value of their music over their own artistic needs is the day their music has died within them.
I would rather Reich be Reich than have Reich be someone else merely to collect your hard-earned money. If anything, were Reich to change merely to please you, but you don't give him your hard-earned money anyways, then who has gained and who has lost?
The musician does not get to choose their audient, so don't use "money" as a means of implying that they can, or that you as an audient would be willing to negotiate terms of their performance in such a manner.
If you don't like it, FINE, but don't expect that your money is all that important, or that money is the only means by which the composer can value his work.
classical_music: when is "classical" not?:
"opinion" or not, this attitude here did come across a little more condescending and arrogant than you might have expected.bunrab : so perhaps composers who want to make a living in music ought to at least take into consideration whether I'd ever pay to hear their "music" again after hearing it once.
The day that composers choose to take into account the commercial value of their music over their own artistic needs is the day their music has died within them.
I would rather Reich be Reich than have Reich be someone else merely to collect your hard-earned money. If anything, were Reich to change merely to please you, but you don't give him your hard-earned money anyways, then who has gained and who has lost?
The musician does not get to choose their audient, so don't use "money" as a means of implying that they can, or that you as an audient would be willing to negotiate terms of their performance in such a manner.
If you don't like it, FINE, but don't expect that your money is all that important, or that money is the only means by which the composer can value his work.
