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On 2 September 2010 07:52, david  wrote:

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>> I don't mean to be offensive, but that does sound an awful lot like what

>> parents were saying when Elvis came out.  :)

> I studied and played ragtime quite a bit. That was the "popular music" my

> grandmother loved when she was young. One time when I was playing some

> ragtime at her house, she came over and said, "Oh, you're playing that dirty

> ragtime music." That was what her parents had said about ragtime when it was

> popular!

I'm pretty sure when Mozart came out to play & conduct a concert, a

couple of ladies fainted and old women always said the same thing. :)

(Note: The concerts used to be a lot more energetic those days, the

silent, passive listeners were not (here's a good rant about iit

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/08/classical-music-applause-rul...))

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Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org

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