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I AM A SNOB
July 24, 2010, 12:50 PM posted by Maria Choban I was at a friend's house last night. We were enjoying a spirited gross out session where I was crooning away badly (because I cannot croon goodly) "We've Only Just Begun......" and "If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words then Why Can't I Paint You?........" and so on while friend was screaming at me "PLEASE STOP!" When I finally stopped I retorted (jovially) "Well, at least I'm not a snob!" My friend was clearly stunned and sputtered "uh, uh, uh, uh.....". His surprise surprised me so I asked seriously: "Really, do you think I'm a snob?" He wouldn't answer, just kept evading. So this morning I'm putting in my first practice stint on Milhaud's Sonata, 2nd movement. I took a break and did some house chores and came back to do work on the 3rd movement. No such luck - my brain was already trashed from the first stint (I am more out of shape than I've ever been in my life and it's showing in my practice endurance). I switched to the 1st movement of the Damase Trio. Whew! I had mental chops to tackle this. The Damase and the Milhaud are on the same concert program, along with the Poulenc Sextet. The Milhaud is definitely the genius work followed closely by the Poulenc. This makes practicing the concert a pleasure. I intersperse practicing nice B+ works like the Damase and the Goossens with genius literature like the Milhaud and the Poulenc and I have no problem enjoying my life. Last year while working almost exclusively on the very genius Winterreise, I was in such bliss that I projected genius to anyone who wrote anything on manuscript paper. Then I began the work on Damase and Goossens, sans Milhaud and Poulenc and my life sucked. It sucked so much I somehow gravitated to Bach's 2nd English Suite to save my artistic sensibilities. My point, and yes, I do have one: I AM a snob. But I'm an authentic, honest snob, based on my own observations of how I viscerally react to music. I don't give a shit what others think. I hate Madonna. There is nothing you can say to me that will ever change my mind. And I detest her because she bores the living shit out of me. Ditto Lady GaGa. Ditto Damase if I had a steady diet. Ditto Mozart. Ditto Radiohead. Ditto The Beatles. Should I stop now? Posted By Penny on July 27, 2010, 11:52 PM Don't think of yourself as a snob; think of yourself as having excellent tast. However, the Carpenters > Mozart? Or is it just that song in particular? I love the introduction to "Marriage of Figaro" and I also loved that Karen Carpenter was a drummer (quite unusual back in the day). Posted By Maria on July 31, 2010, 08:41 AM totally with you on Karen Carpenter as a drummer. totally totally totally. In fact, I think it's a crime that she died of a broken heart (translation: complications from anorexia brought on by her thinking she had to acquiesce to the record industry and her brother and sing/front the group rather than play her beloved drums.) I think the Carpenters' music is shit, btw. I LOVE Don Giovanni. I also love the second movement of one of Mozart's violin/piano sonatas. Posted By David Maclaine on August 11, 2010, 02:03 PM You're only a snob if you think that your ability to enjoy music most people can't, along with your inability to stand what many millions do enjoy, makes you somehow morally superior to those whose tastes and abilities differ. The intensity of your response to the music you love or hate has nothing to do with it. You don't refuse to try music because it's somehow beneath you, and you don't base your response to music on how it's regarded by people who supposedly have good taste; you like what you like and hate what you hate based purely on your own visceral responses. That's not snobbery. |
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