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Re: [ARSCLIST] Fun little blog
Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
>
> 99.9% of the current "music lovers" are blissfully ignorant of
> the fact that popular music actually existed well before the
> invention of "rock'n'roll!" IF pressed, they can cite Frank
> Sinatra and, possibly, Tony Bennett...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
Oh, and don't forget a few "popular" music writers of their day, like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Verdi, etc., ad infinitum! They, fortunately for us, wrote the popular music of their day. And Ezio Pinza did rather well in what we would call today
"both genres."
Howard S Friedman