{"id":5441,"date":"2010-10-16T00:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:32:03","slug":"two-kinds-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/16\/two-kinds-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"two kinds of music…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Arnica Quartet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. – Louis Armstrong<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Last night the Arnica Quartet played for a Friends of the Oregon Symphony<\/a> (FOS) Parties of Note<\/a> event.\u00a0 Held in a lovely 60’s era Rummer home<\/a> in Beaverton, the planning for the party quickly evolved into music built around the idea of the setting of the Mad Men<\/em> television series.\u00a0 As I was gathering together music for the evening, I realized that even though there was not any “classical” music per se<\/em> on the program, it was all good – even great – music.\u00a0 Henry Mancini, Leroy Anderson, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney were each very talented songwriters and composers, and their best work really stands up with some of the best “classical” music.\u00a0 This reminded me of the first paragraph of Alex Ross’ new book Listen to This (originally published as an essay<\/a> in the The New Yorker<\/em> magazine):<\/p>\n

I hate \u201cclassical music\u201d: not the thing but the name. It traps a tenaciously living art in a theme park of the past. It cancels out the possibility that music in the spirit of Beethoven could still be created today. It banishes into limbo the work of thousands of active composers who have to explain to otherwise well-informed people what it is they do for a living. The phrase is a masterpiece of negative publicity, a tour de force of anti-hype. I wish there were another name. I envy jazz people who speak simply of \u201cthe music.\u201d Some jazz aficionados also call their art \u201cAmerica\u2019s classical music,\u201d and I propose a trade: they can have \u201cclassical,\u201d I\u2019ll take \u201cthe music.\u201d<\/div>\n

I was also struck by this sentiment as we were rehearsing for our first pops program for this weekend.\u00a0 There is such a wealth of music that is so incredibly effective, moving, and well-crafted that has been put into a non-classical box.\u00a0 I prefer to think of it as good music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind. – Louis Armstrong Last night the Arnica Quartet played for a Friends of the Oregon Symphony (FOS) Parties of Note event.\u00a0 Held in a lovely 60’s era Rummer home in Beaverton, the planning for the party quickly evolved into music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148,136,1046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-chamber-music","category-pops-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1pL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7773,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/16\/arnica-quartet-announces-season\/","url_meta":{"origin":5441,"position":0},"title":"arnica quartet announces season","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year, when the smaller groups start to announce their upcoming season, and the Arnica String Quartet is no exception! 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