CharmNewton wrote:Discussion of Stravinsky seems to bring out more emotion than the music itself, and perhaps there lies the problem.
For some people, perhaps,
John. At any event, if person
A makes a sneering remark denigrating
Stravinsky, and person
B replies sharply, person
A is in a position to observe the emotion of B's discussion, but never in any position to observe
B's emotion on listening to
Stravinsky.
Look, folks, you want to praise
Respighi, I wish you all joy of him!
Do all us admirers of
Stravinsky (and all of us who find
Stravinsky's music emotional enough on its own terms) the favor and courtesy, when you vent your non-appreciation of
Stravinsky, to leave it at "I don't connect to
Stravinsky's music, somehow," and spare us the balderdash of "I guess his music doesn't have soul."
Cheers,
~Karl