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From: mitchell morris
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So to roil the waters...
1. David Lieberman asserted on Feb 1st that "Art criticism...is at its
root, a profoundly moral enterprise." I agree that this is what
it should be,though in truth I would expand the statement to something
like "All musical activities can be understood in a deep sense as a
special kind of moral reflection or reasoning, and this aspect of their
existence must be addressed if their comprehension is not to be seriously
impoverished." But I wonder whether the field of musicology as a whole
would be comfortable with that statement. I also wonder how such a case
might best be argued. Maybe the list membership could ponder for a few
weeks, and begin a discussion, oh, say sometime around Feb 20th?
2. Many of Ken Russell's films are wonderful (especially the truly campy
ones), and as Chris Williams and Theresa Muir observed, they have the great
virtue of being impossible to mistake for history "wie es eigentlich
gewesen." (I need remind no one that most people really believe this is
what history actually does.) Given the decline of even the most
rudimentary historical consciousness in US culture (and I'm sure we can
all think of examples, though I may notice them more in Southern
California), this is nothing but praiseworthy. I've been pushing
Lisztomania to students for years, not because I agree with the
ways all the characters are portrayed (big surprise), but because the
movie is so "good to think with." Consider the noxious alternative of
_Amadeus_. Are we at all surprised that a significantly large section of
the public is very likely to believe that _Amadeus_ was filled with nuthin'
but "true facts"?
a Ken Russell short list:
Lisztomania; Mahler; The Lair of the White Worm (superlative!); Salome's
Last Dance (not without its problems, but not without its virtues,
either); the fabulous music video on "Nessun Dorma" in the film _Aria_.
(And we must also commend _Aria_ for it startlingly literal treatment of
Isolde's Transfiguration music.)
So there.
Mitchell Morris His Sign :-{)}