Sir John Tavener on Mozart
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@peddletoneG Oh I'm totally with you there. I don't see my view as "cup half empty." In fact, my position is more optimistic and proud of the achievements of my fellow human beings than Tavener's apparently is. I realize Tavener is trying to express his liking for Mozart in the best way he can, but I think that he should reconsider the implication of conferring credit onto an entity that is NOT Mozart at all. I just want Mozart to get his kudos instead of essentially being called a mere "vessel"
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@azoriusherald Honesty is great, but not when it so often expresses itself in the 'cup half empty' approach--one I have too often succumbed to--and in this case is no 'insult' (intent) so much as attempting to express the highest respect and admiration that Taverner himself comes short of words to express, and does the best he can to laud a human unusually blessed with talent. Not my 'desert island' composer, but if we'd only had a few more decades of production out of the genius Mozart. If...
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@jpbouz ??? Lots of removed comments.
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@plasticPlaystation yep, as i suspected, you don't have much to say. probably for the better all the same
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@jpbouz Man, I thought you were a troll, now i'm thinking you are an attention whore...
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@jpbouz Lol, we have the opinion of the great Sir John Tavener against the words of Sir Nobody...
Just open your ears, and try to understand what he is trying to communicate. Do everyone have to think just like you???
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Anyway I don't see what is so wrong with what he is saying. He's saying Mozart's music is sublimely beautiful, transcendentally so. Is that so bad? Mozart was no atheist. He regarded himself as being a Catholic. What is it that Tavener is saying that people are describing as 'bollocks'? Is it his use of that dirty word 'God' that is upsetting people?
PegasusWhiteRose 3 years ago 12
Er... Mozart's Requiem? That isn't sacred music?
It depends upon what you think of as sacred. If you mean belonging to a religious tradition, then a lot of his music isn't. But if you believe what is sacred is what is spiritually beautiful, then a vast amount of his music is sacred. I think that is what Tavener is saying.
PegasusWhiteRose 3 years ago 7