Reith Lectures- Daniel Barenboim

matt b

Indexing all opinion
"In this year's Reith Lectures musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim discusses the interplay between music and society"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2006/

i'm looking forward to this.

could be awful though: "I will argue that we have lost the ability to make value judgements about public standards - all because of political correctness and bad education."


discuss.
 

Lichen

Well-known member
The titles do sound promising and I hope to listen in. Never know, it might even qualify me to make informed comment on this board.


As for "I will argue that we have lost the ability to make value judgements about public standards - all because of political correctness and bad education."

Sounds a bit dicky, but let's hear the man out.
 

matt b

Indexing all opinion
first one was ok, a bit all over the place. i'd read the transcript over the recording.

i think he's wrong about a fair bit:

"I will try to discover why it is that we are neglecting our ears so much, and why we have become such a visual society, and why it is that the eye seems to have so much more power than the ear. "

not something i notice in london when lots of idiots with ipods walk into you.

and it included both david mellor and julian lloyd webber <shudders>
 
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