J.P. STRALEY writes:

Just a quick comment on rock music as discussed in the recent “Globalism” post.

It’s not beautiful!  The writers and players do not have that idea in mind.

Consider the direct opposite, classical music.  There is not one work you can name in which the composer did not have the over-arching drive to create something of beauty.

Try listening to some rock, and then immediately afterward to classical.   This highlights the different ambitions of the two sets of composers…some sort of edgy excitement for rock, and just plain old transcendent beauty for classical.

[Luciano Pavarotti sings “Cujus Animam” from Rossini’s Stabat Mater.]

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