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April 16, 2005
Music swap reality
At the office where work I am the only one into classical or contemporary non-pop music. This is nothing new to me: I have always been a solitary figure in my social environment when it comes to my music preference. From high school up to now most people (family, friends or colleagues in my non-music related jobs) prefer some kind of pop music.
At high school I even pretended I liked Boney M (shivers down my spine when I think of it) to be not too isolated from the rest of my classmates. But at home I secretly listen to Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Schönberg, Hindemith or Stravinsky etcetera.
Last week a colleague and I swapped iPods for a moment and we both selected something not too disturbing for the other. I was confronted with Massive Attack and my colleague freaked out on Steve Reich's Different Trains. To me Different Trains is easy to grasp, well made and about a very intriguing subject. For her it was something that worn her out in about five minutes.
This - again - leaves me with the question: how big is the gap between new music composers and performers on the one side with the ordinary culturally interested - but no classical music please! - public on the other side.
My choice made it clearer to me it is probably greater than I wish for.
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