And that's because it is that, albeit well-hidden.
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| School kids on a music learning excursion in Australia |
This immediate past weekend, the public of Australia voted in a referendum for their favorite 'top 100 classical music composers.' Okay, so let's pretend it was an actual government poll... LOL
The poll was run, giving the public heaps of time (months and months) to think about their choices, by ABC Classic Radio FM.
Beethoven came Number 1, and when you think about it, it was quite some feat to produce a public-submitted list of names that ran to all of the whole 100 names on the final complete list!!
On Sunday, there was a major performance at the Sydney Opera House, of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra - which was able to feature 800 adult choral voices!! Jesus! Think about it. Did you ever think there even were 800 sufficiently culturally educated people in Australia to the extent you could field an 800-person strong team in any one place at a specific time?
Amazing.
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| A Sydney restaurant menu item... Oh yeah. |
The kids, these days. They listen to the drek of popular music - all percussion and bass and rhythm. If they were to hear, say, "Siegfried's Funeral March," would it change them? Would it cause them to, as Joseph Conrad put it, "howl and foam at the mouth, (but I daren't)"?
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