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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (4817)11/3/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (3) of 13015
 
Music is our myth of the inner life.
Susanne Langer

If this is true, then rap and ska and heavy metal indicate a terrible void in the souls of our young people.
I do remember my father saying how awful the Beatles were, though, and how Cab Calloway was so great. So perhaps we just don't understand the myths of the next generation?
I have a sixteen year old who is a drummer in a band, but who begged to join us for the opera season this year. So I don't worry about his soul too much.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.
Nadia Boulanger, who taught a friend of mine in Paris
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