Monday 17 November 2008

Adorno rotating in his grave

I gues that if Adorno would be today at the classical music conert he would rather die, because of how mistaken he was...

Because you cant force certain people to enjoy the "high" culture... In front of me (the whole line) were sitting guys around 15 (appereantly with their teacher from some kind of kids asylum). When the girl with beautiful soprano was singin the Cacchini's Ave Maria they were laughing loudly.

I was really wondering if I should intervene and beat them up... but... there would be high possibility that I would come out as the bad one, because
a) there were a lot of Gipsy kids in there - therefore I would be a racist
b) I wasnt sure if they werent slightly retarted - therefore I would be cruel person who beats up the retarted kids

Anyway I just think they were just bunch of assholes who do not have any manners. Because in the breathtaking start of the Ave Maria (just the string instruments) one of the gipsy kid said something like: "Jesus fucking christ this would be great background for beatbox" and started to do there the beatbox shit. I was really THIS close from beating him up... But I didnt... because, you just cant force someone to enjoy the "high" culture if he knows only the "low" culture. Therefore I think that Adorno was really mistaken with his theory, that the elite intellectuals should say what is good (classical music and avant-garde) and what is bad....

Anyhow, Adorno was critisizing mostly jazz music, which on the other hand is today rated as the "high" culture, because it is kinda difficult. If he would see what is "popular" these days, he would be probably rotating in his grave...

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