[Fmpro] a new world odor

[bipcress@comcast.net]

Ted, I can align myself with most of what you say. You mention "When music became an academic enterprise, a lot of what made music interesting left. What left was an immediacy to the culture. Some of the works produced by academic composers are very good but there are few who transcend the environment at the "school" they are teaching." Those words flow directly from one of my core points! Film composers can kick so much glorious ass because they have THE Stage on which to perform. Their ideas are ingested by millions of filmgoers all over the country, and these listeners won't even know if it's that good brain-medicine (advanced musical ideas) getting into their heads, or merely commercial fluff. The magic of it is that mere exposure to advanced fine art effects consciousness. Hitler, being evil but not stupid, knew this. One of his first tasks after coming into power was to come down hard on artists-as-intellectuals - can't have people getting their minds stimulated by dynamic film scores. / When you say "Are we cultural morons? Probably. But out of that will come new directions." you completely lose me. How does ignorance produce enlightenment? I thought the enlightened spread enlightenment. Everything I've learned has come from either insight or from people smarter, wiser, or more gifted than me - not "morons".  - JohnB