[JimC]

jeffc wrote:

"JimC" wrote in message
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As I remember it, the thesis of the author was that listening to classical
music is a subjective (note: highly subjectivist!!!) experience in which
the music bypasses conscious thought and current mental clutter and begins
to communicate directly with the subconcious.


Then again, I might simply like it. Haven't these people ever been to a
concert? Any reason we can't want to "attend" one at home? I mean if you
went to a concert, would you use it as background music while cooking dinner
there?


But listening to the Stones has never had quite the same effect.


I beg to differ.


You beg to differ with what? Are you saying that listening to the Stones
has the same effect as listening to classical music? That Stones music
"speaks to and reenerizes the most civilized aspects of your inner self?"

I like the Stones also, and I hope to be able to get to one of their
upcoming concerts, but I can't say that listening to their music has
the same effect as listening to Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmananinoff,
etc.

Jim