IDIOT

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The arrogance of the pundit can be excused if s/he has something at least moderately intelligent, interesting or arguable to say. But that a grown man with enough brain cells to move on two feet should deliver himself of the following atrocity and live not to even be mocked or subjected to proper invective (not insult, for to call such a man a

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[capnflynn]

Apparently this fellow doesn't believe that popular artists, or artists who work in the realm of popular entertainment (rock music, comic books, television, whatever) count as real artists?

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That's part of it. It's garbage, of course.

[fellmama]

Either you die young which makes your art unworthy of note, or you haven't died yet which makes you . . . too old to count? Way to logic, Mr. Tyrrell. (Also, seriously, Virgil Thomson?)

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He could have more advantageously mentioned Edward Macdowell or George Gershwin, but then Gershwin was tainted by the touch of plebeian pop music, and one has to actually know music - and not just listen to the classics channel every now and then - to know Macdowell