Re: Why are most classical music lovers politically liberal?

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:02:48 GMT
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That generalization is preposterous. True classical music lovers love
classical music. Anything else they do or don't do is entirely up to them.
Apolitical? Tell that Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tippett, Hans Werner Henze,
William Schuman, Frederick Rzewski, Dmitri Shostakovich, Charles Ives, Lou
Harrison, Sergei Prokofiev, Erwin Schullhof, Luigi Nono. Your generalization
is not true of most composers, though it could be true of a substantial
minority of them, so why should it be true of classical music lovers? Are
people who listen to but do not create classical music numb to every aspect
of existence other than listening to classical music? I'd like to think most
of us are not that brain dead.
Dan Koren <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> email-address-deleted (Preston Rich) wrote in message
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> > I've always wondered why most (if not all) of my classical music (and
> > art) loving friends tend to be politically liberal. Is it simply true
> > that most political conservatives tend to be less sensitive,
> > introspective, creative or in touch with their feelings than are
> > liberals? As a political conservative, I've often wondered about
> > this. Is there truly a stereotype at work here, or am I simply off
> > base with my observations?
>
> True classical music lovers are entirely apolitical :)
>
>
> dk