Re: [Pen-l] Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and the perils of success

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:

Classical musicians, in contrast, are by their very essence part of a cosmopolitan, supportive, family; and from their earliest years they know themselves to be part of a many-centuried tradition that will sustain itself and grow as long as human beings remain civilized.

[ds] Which flies in the face of declining classical music audience.   Classical music is dying.

Well, well, well.  So someone is even more pessimistic about the survival  of civilization than I am!

[sm] It surely was some twisted perception of this that caused the sick mind of Mao-Tse-Tung to unleash his pogrom against classical music--something not even Stalin would have dared to imagine.

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it

always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,

kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos

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