[MD] What's wrong with "schmaltz"?

[Jan Anders Andersson]

Hello John

Why be "hip" when you could be normal?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Happy-When-Could-Normal/dp/009955609X

Take care

Jan Anders


12 jan 2013 kl. 17.01 skrev T-REXX Techs, Inc.:

> The cathedral choir to which I belong has begun rehearsing a major work for
> a Lenten concert in March.  It's the oratorio The Crucifixion, by Sir John
> Stainer.  Stainer lived from 1840 to 1901 in Victorian England, where he
> composed The Crucifixion in 1887.  The music is definitively characteristic
> of late Romantic English music in being expressive and emotionally evocative
> to the point of being judged "schmaltzy" by today's standards of musical
> taste.  
> 
>             But I love this music!  Of course it's "schmaltzy"; so what?
> What's wrong with "schmaltzy"??  (Yes, I also love Hallmark Christmas
> movies, and I cry at chick flicks, and I write sentimental nostalgic poetry.
> OK.  Satisfied?)  Why is it considered not quite "hip" to feel things deeply
> and to enjoy experiences that are sweet and good and beautiful and to
> respond to them with appropriate emotion?
> 
>             It seems to me that music and art of this period evokes
> memories of simpler times, when humble and sincere piety was not culturally
> unfashionable.  Why does contemporary culture regard such patterns of
> quality with a certain smug disdain?  I really want to know.
> 
>             But should it be that I must choose to be "hip" or to continue
> to feel deeply and passionately, "hip" can go hang!  :-)
> 
> Kind regards to all,
> 
> 
> 
> 
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