Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
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