The Recovering Choir Director

The debate [about music] needs to focus on how music acts on people, and it must keep in mind the difference between the music itself and the morality of the composer and the difference between the music and the venues the music is performed in. Pointing to the lifestyle of Boy George to damn the music of the Culture Club becomes problematic when looking at Mozart. Blaming the music of the Grateful Dead on the lifestyle of many dead-heads becomes problematic when one realizes that much of the Dead’s music is really country-folk (I saw shows of theirs that were almost entirely acoustic folk).

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