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November 20 - The Debut of Emerson, Lake & Palmer
11/20/70: Elp – Emerson, Lake & Palmer Flailing, booming, bozos, clunky, heavy-handed, sav
2019-03-05 15:51:00
Classical music has lost the art of dumbing sideways
A tribute to André Previn affirmed that "He probably did more to popularise great music on his Saturday night show for BBC1 than anybody else before or since" and acknowledgement of his role as a populariser was a common thread running through all the rich appreciations. In recent years classical music has been subject to many varieties of dumbing down; from Ibiza anthems at the BBC Proms to Paganini with a hula hoop. But dumbing down has singularly failed to even approach the success achieved by André Previn and other popularisers of the past. My classical epiphany predated André Previn by some years. It was Jacques Loussier and Modern Jazz Quartet founder John Lewis who led me to appreciate the infinite riches of J.S. Bach's music. Jacques Loussier (b.1934) and John Lewis (1920-2010) were masters of the art of dumbing sideways - using jazz to make classical music more […]
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