mad_machine wrote:novaderrik wrote:You might need to fight Curmudgion for his name. Classical might not be to your tastes, but you can't at least enjoy it for what it is? I don;t care for Rap or Country, but I can enjoy certain aspects of those two performance genresBeer Baron wrote: Viva Italia! I loved good street performances in Europe. The kids pretending to be conductors were my favorite in this video. This reminds me a bit of the little social experiment of the world class violinist playing incredible music in a DC train station and almost no one stopping to listen. Pausing to spontaneously enjoy culture is definitely something the Europeans are better at that we could do well to emulate.this might sound weird, but there are those among us that don't like that kind of music.. i'm one of them.. i remember that violin video going viral, and all i could think of was how annoyed i'd be if i was just trying to get from point a to point b and someone was playing a violin in a place where it's not supposed to be played- which to me is as bad as someone cranking up some rap or teeny bopper bubble gum pop...
i can't enjoy it if it's not in the right time or place for it, and i hate that people think their musical tastes are better than mine or that they are better and more complete people because they happen to like classical music and i don't. so, yeah, someone playing a violin in a train station where people are trying to get from place to place is as bad as the local 19 year old that thinks everyone in a 5 mile radius of his car should share his love for Dr Dre or SLAYER or whatever..
