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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (40256)	6/12/1999 11:28:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Joan, at a loss for words??? <VBG> Here, all I can do is sputter. You know better than that, Chuzzlewit. It wouldn't bother me if you did not care for Art. But you do. Of course I care for art, music and literature. If the truth be known had I the power to magically transform myself into anything I could possibly be, I would be a musician -- either a baritone or a pianist (I am not sure which). The point that I was making is that there is no "truth" that arises from these arts. Nevertheless they enrich our lives in myriad ways. I enjoy reading Keats, but I would be hard-pressed to point to any truth emerging from his poetry. That is not to say that there is no resonance -- there certainly is. But truth? No. When I was young I used to enjoy Tchaikowsky. Maybe I ODed in his music, but now I find it saccharine; I can't listen to it any more. Is it fair to say that his music is inferior to Schubert's? If so, on what basis? Has it lost it's truth? I find myself gravitating toward chamber music and away from orchestral pieces. Is this a matter of truth or preference? My point was, and is, that the arts are fundamentally different than the sciences. There is no way that I can think of that the two can be compared. I cannot imagine reading a paper in the Journal of Biochemistry simply for the joy of the poetry of the language -- Ode To Structure Function Relationships in Trypsin-like Proteolytic Enzymes somehow lacks the esthetic magnetism of Ode On A Grecian Urn. So tell me, Joan, which is better: hip hop or Beethoven, and how do you know? Judging by CD sales I think it would be clearly hip hop. Is there an objective measure? I grappled with this question in a purely amateurish way some time ago when listening to Chinese music. It sounded quite alien to me, and I wondered whether a new-born child would react more positively toward Western music or Eastern music. Are we dealing with acquired tastes? And if so, doesn't that extend to the issue of judging one composer superior or inferior to another? TTFN, CTC