[Dixielandjazz] I love this definition!/why people patronize music

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hey Charles:

That sounds like a Jazz OPERA title to me,  Heck I would probably go to 
see and hear that one unless the star is the FAT LADY :))

Cheers,

Tom,  who also never got into Opera, never needed to be seen that 
badly. :))



-----Original Message-----
From: csuhor at zebra.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] I love this definition!/why people 
patronize music

   On Feb 2, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Bob Romans wrote:

> Jazz Club - n. A place where people pay a lot of money not to listen
> to jazz, most of which does not go to the musicians to whom they are
> not listening.


Yes, lots of club partrons go to hip (and thought-to-be-hip) jazz clubs
to be seen there, or to tell friends back home that they went there. I
wonder how many people who don't give a hoot about jazz have been over
the years to Preservation Hall, Sweet Basil's, the Lighthouse,  the
Blue Note, etc., just for bragging rights. Don't get me wrong, I think
we should value their support, even when they clap on one and three, it
means work for musicians. But it's an interesting social phenomenon.

I've been told that going to the opera in order to be seen, preferably
in fur coats and fine jewelry, has long been part of bourgeois and
upper class culture, much to the consternation of true opera lovers. Is
this the case? Any opera buffs out there? Last week I went to Guiseppe
Verdi's  "La Traviata," my first full-length opera. It's the one kind
of music I've never much connected with. That's a flaw, but I accept it
as such and have stayed away, going this time because my son was in the
chorus. I had mixed reactions, but that's not a topic for this list. It
was perversely comforting, though, to know that the title and composer
can be translated, "The Slut" by Joe Green.

Charlie Suhor


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