Subject: Re: Dinosaurs and Job
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:28:08 +0800
From: “Theo Bekkers” < >
Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian
Graeme Hunt < > wrote
> “Theo Bekkers”  < > wrote:

> >Mozart and McCartney both wrote ‘pop’ music (if it wasn’t ‘pop’ at the
time
> >of publication it would have died). McCartney wrote, and published, more
> >than anyone in history. And made a lot more money from it.

> That demonstrates how society has degenerated. It no longer has any
> real culture.

You’re serious, aren’t you? If the book 
or music was written less than 100-200 years ago 
it has no value? Could I point out that Vivaldi 
wrote off the cuff ‘pop’ music. His job 
was to provide a new piece of music to be performed 
at next weekend’s banquet/dinner/gathering. 
This he did every week for some years. He had no 
direct intent to write stuff that would be 
remembered and played in posterity. He was just 
earning that week’s pay.

His ‘four seasons’ are today being played 
by major orchestras. I have four different recordings 
of it myself. There is little difference between what 
he did then and what ‘pop’ musicians do now. 
Some of it is not very good and doesn’t stand 
the test of time. Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ 
and Floyd’s ‘Momentary Lapse of Reason’ 
are not one of those. There is a lot of good 
‘pop’ that has stood the test of time. I 
listen to music I enjoy, new and old, not just because 
it has the status of age.

I, and I believe you, are about the same age as Mick 
Jagger and Paul McCartney.  :-)

Cheers
Theo