The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108252 Message #2251428
Posted By: Ref
02-Feb-08 - 09:47 AM
Thread Name: Pianos In Folk Music
Subject: RE: Pianos In Folk Music
Hey it's about Folk Music, or folks' music. If people get pleasure sharing and trading songs around a Steinway Concert Grand, then it's no more or less appropriate to "Folk Music" than doing so around a battered, forty-year-old Martin guitar. I'd more enjoy a fight about the merits of singing music together as opposed to sitting passively while someone else presents their solo "interpretation." Also, spare me the Ralph Vaughan Williams and aaron Copeland versions of traditional folk music. They're over-orchestrated crap!