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Re: [ARSCLIST] Hatto, and a question
On 16/09/07, Karl Miller wrote:
> I also find it a wonderful commentary on how few
> really listen and how subject reviewers are to hype of
> one sort or another. It would seem that the notions of
> "greatness" are highly subject to marketing and hype
> and that we all can fall victim to such manipulation.
>
> But then, one can question the basic notions of
> "honesty" in recordings. As one of my friends wrote in
> an essay, there is no honesty these days and that with
> all of the editing we are selling and consuming
> lies...an interesting perspective...
>
Otto Klemperer's remark to his daughter, on hearing about tape editing,
"Lotte, es ist ein schwindle".
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Don Cox
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