I agree with Rachel Atroesti Brian Wilson was a gift of mankind, and I loved his music (Brian Wilson is a genius of music. Are there left ?, 14 June). But the genius of music should not match the mainstream success – there are music that anybody would appreciate. And I can name many known musicians still pushing the bounds of the sound: Anna meredithMarriage to marry electronic and classical springs of mind, for example, or Anna B SavageMerge close vocal pops to fixes to people’s arrangements.
More then, aroesesi seems to work from a narrow frame of cultural reference. His article said Wilson was “Leadly Radical” to change pop to an “emotional autobiography”, in the words of David David’s biographer. What about the French chansons that reign in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s and carries the lyrics of autobiography in Mainstream?
Aroesti also suggests pop music in its apothosis in the 1960s and now repeats himself – looking at the basic fact that all conversations in development. Sure, Shakespeare and Chekhov are not typically good, but there are some decent games written in 300-plus years between them, and we never go to the spaces in all interim workers.
I recommend the atroesti to spend some time pondering the system he lives, which seems to take him believing that the remaining geniuses of music are more than 70 (and most of the men of white). In the meantime, I listened to Kae Presest (a genius, in my eyes).
Anoushka Lucas
London
The question asked by the article by Rachel Atoesti is upset, but the frame is narrow. It treats “genius of music” as it is primarily within Western Pop and Rock, who ignores the extraordinary music inventing to the whole world and other genres. Brian Wilson is a good inundation, but he prohibits inspiration from Classical, jazz and experimental music. Ariesti in short touch of Beatles, but not in their immersion in Indian music. This coincide things. Genius or genre is rarely trapped.
If aboesti thinks that the pop feels suffering, perhaps saying more about the western industry than the existence of genius. It’s not always wrapped for British or US charts, but that doesn’t mean it’s lost. We have a lot of music to use our fingers than any point in our history; We just have to listen to a lot.
Pull oregan
San Francisco, California, US
