With the recent changes to CBC Radio 2 and the disbanding of the CRO, classical music fans have come crawling out of the woodwork (and woodwinds) to protest what the have decried as the sullying of the CBC's mandate to the arts.
Exhibit A for why many folks think these whiners are snobs, taken from the letters section of the Globe & Mail:
I am almost too depressed about the planned "overhaul" of CBC's Radio 2 to even write about it. What's the point? We've all seen the writing on the wall for some time now, and resistance is futile: The CBC no longer feels there is any point to devoting an entire radio station to the more musically and intellectually complex style of music colloquially, though entirely inappropriately, known as "classical" (more on that tendentious terminology in a moment), because, according to its mysterious studies, no one is interested in that any more.I'm pretty sure if I was having a real conversation with somebody and they uttered the above paragraph, I would be left with no option but to punch them in the face.
Please. Come off your pedestal and join us philistines and our good friend Leslie Feist.
Sometimes it's fun to slum it a little, y'know?
2 comments:
I think it is ironic that this is coming from you...the one person I make fun of for using fancy words and sounding snooty...
That would be a zinger, if it was the language that I had issues with.
It's the idea that classical music is somehow more "musically and intellectually complex" and that the people who listen to it are more cultured than those who listen to other genres.
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