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Jarrett (was: recordings in historic tunings)

🔗Paul H. Erlich <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>

5/22/2000 2:12:54 PM

Dante wrote,

>>In that case, to what would you attribute his willful closed-mindedness
and
>>self-satisfied ignorance concerning a major dimension of music?

I wrote,

>Though I clearly have a problem with his point and the way he put it, note
>that Jarrett calls both those who seek out performances in alternate
>tunings, _and_ those who are ignorant of alternate tunings, equally
"crazy".

Which is to say that his willful closed-mindedness and self-satisfied
ignorance is fully tempered by an equal proportion of pragmatic
open-mindedness and elitist knowledgability, and his egomania may, if
anything, be showing in his calling "crazy" anyone who is less neutral than
him on this issue.