Saint Peter

Hope you all got a chance to see the the Pete Seeger show on PBS last night.
Whatta guy!

It occurs to me that all the hand wringing about Shostakovitch being suppressed by the evil Russkies and the NYPhil going to Korea and all, that the US's treatment of this true hero of American music is kind of being overlooked.
That's a stupid statement, isn't it? I just saw it on the TV.!
What I mean is (if I actually mean anything); TRIN has one mention of Pete and only as the son of a "classical" violinist, of whom you've never heard.
But Ross does mention Bob Dylan.
How do you even dare to mention Bob Dylan, how do you dare mention 20th century music and leave out the "folk song movement"

Like Bartok and many others Seeger "went to the people" but, Unlike B&o's he started there and he stayed there.
Didn't just record and steal like the "Great" "Classical" dufusses in order to make "real" music out of it. He brought "the people" along.
Made music of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The only example I know of music actually having a positive political effect.

Anyway, lets look at the 20th Century music.

Gigantism;
Compare Mahlers 8th "a symphony of a thousand" with a Pete Seeger concert a sing along of tens of thousands.
Minimalism; "We shall overcome" repeat...
Aleatory; You can make up your own words if you want.
Yada yada.....the intellectualization of music is a absurd, not to mention futile.
Screw Pete Seeger, He's not doing anything for me. I still have a cold.

All this garbage sounded good in my head last night when I was trying to get to sleep.
I'll apologize later.
Butch demands I write every day, so I'm posting it anyway.
I'm going downtown now.