The Music Scene

by Padrino , Rosarito/Zihuatanejo, Thursday, November 03, 2022, 10:37 (1468 days ago) @ Oeste Hermoso

"If it sounds good, then it’s good music." -- Duke Ellington (Various versions are reported.)

Music is so subjective, so universal and yet so intensively personal. If it sounds good, it is good ... for you!

I will never forget my cousin's son rolling his eyes as I put on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D. I forget exactly why I did so. Either my cousin or his son asked me to choose a "classical music" piece for some reason or another. (Note: This is not a piece from the classical music era. It is from the romantic era.) I wasn't proselyting or anything like that. One or both of them wanted to hear something like that for some reason or another. However, the look on his face was perfect and unambiguous. "This sucks." I, on the other hand, believe this piece to be one of the most beautiful works of music ever written. We didn't get past the first movement.

It is sounds good, it is good. If it doesn't, oh, well, time to find something else.

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