nemesis wrote:

> But anyway, drums&bass seem to be the only way of getting people to listen to a
> violin today.  This and "Girl with electronic violin" with violin sounding like
> a guitar... :P

Personally, I happen to like many different styles of music.

I really liked the theme music to Pirates of the Carribean. But I also 
really liked the techno remix I found on YouTube. I thought it was 
really clever how somebody could take a piece of music in one style and 
play it in a completely different style, yet have it still immediately 
obvious that it's still the same piece. I like *both* performances, for 
different reasons.

Similarly, a few years back I found a rock performance of [the simple 
parts from] Bach's Toccata & Fugue. (Actually just the toccata, really. 
And only the bits you can easily play on an electric guitar with a 
drummer and some backing.) It's much simpler than what Bach wrote, but 
it's still quite entertaining.

And then the other day I heard a bunch of hill billies playing 80s rock. 
THAT was funny! :-D But in a weird way, it kinda works...

(In a similar theme, the heavy metal version of Mrs Robinson.)

So getting people to listen to a particular style or a particular 
instrument is... meh. People will listen to whatever people want to 
listen to. The point is that *I* know what *I* like to listen to. (And I 
don't care if anybody else likes it!)

OTOH, my car stereo refuses to play The Beach Boys for some reason... 
Maybe it's trying to tell me something?

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