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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: "No excuse for anyone to listen to a piece of music more than once"
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 20:19:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 22 20:19:11 1984
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I think most people will agree that Bartok wrote some great music. I was
told so when I was young, but didn't know enough to agree or disagree.
I bought the quartets and taped them, but they sounded so horrible that
I could listen to them only a minute or two at a time.  But because people
I respected said that they were good, I listened until I learned the
language. Then I could appreciate how really wonderful they are; to my
ear the finest quartets since Beethoven.  They never tire me, as does so
much inferior music after a few hearings.  The idea that you can appreciate
unfamiliar music on one hearing is pernicious.  If you enjoy it right
away, that's good, but you may find it palls after twenty hearings,
whereas another piece may just be maturing in your ear by that time.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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