abe smith

Jabbering *about* music, of whatever sort, doesn't make too-much sense. We can listen to it & let it work its effect upon us. IF the "purpose" of music-making were verbalizable, then writing/performing/listening to it would be purposeless.
(Music) "should not mean, but be".
Why shd we care ANYTHING about the peculiar behaviours and quirks of those who write & perform it? All that stuff is gossip; nothing to do w/ music.
As for John Cage's "4 minutes & 33 seconds", I will offer the footnote of a better musician than him: when someone asked Mozart "What's the best music, Wolfgang?" he answered "Silence".

Darth Dane

I've heard that some studies were performed, with palnts and music.

Plants in a mozart enviroment tended to swing towards the speaker and grow faster, than plants in a Metallica enviroment, where teh plants tended to swing away from the speaker and grow slower with less vitality.





DD - Love & Laughter

Insomniac Dreams

Thus proving that metallica is a travesty to people's hearing, even when they play with a full orchestra.....

User

I completely ripped my opponent. People were yelling out and cheering me on, and at the end the whole class was clapping. Afterwards, everyone agreed that I completely shredded his thin argument. In the words of my friend, "That was amazing. He left himself open, and you came in with an uzi."

I was on stage clenching a Bible, and after quoting the story of Beethoven on his death bed (where after receving last rites, Beethoven said, "Applaud my friends, the comedy is over!") I dropped the Bible on a desk. Everyone yelled out "Ohhhh!" throughout the room, and I heard people whispering, "He sounds like a preacher!"

An atheist preacher

missus_gumby

Verdi's Requiem -- arguably one of the greatest works of religious music of all time. Oddly enough, Verdi was not a religious man, in all likelyhood he was an atheist.

Brahms was definitely an atheist.

Martin

Sarpedon

I'm glad someone confirmed my suspicion of Brahms