I was just told that George Harrison is "Classical Music" WTF????

And no, not Classic Rock

But Classical Music

Am I that old?

Snot-nosed punks! :grr:

I can't think of another explanation that doesn't involve stupidity.

...a Republican?


mark

But I can tell you he's one of our new guys who is not legally allowed to drink for another year..

Some of Harrison's music was written a almost a half century ago. People who appreciated Harrison's music have born, lived and died since then.

It may not be classical in your sense or even in mine (I'm old enough to remember the Beatles first live appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show).

So he wasn't born in Mozart's, or even Sousa's Or Leonard Bernstein's (sp?) era. It is standing the rigors of age. Personally, I wouldn't call Harrison's music classic. Yet.

But for those people who were born long after the Beatles broke up, and who still hum Harrison's melodies... well, if they want to call George's music "classical", I'm not going to argue with them.

There is classical music being composed as we speak - just sitting around on a shelf and remaining around for 50 years doesn't make Harrison's music "classical" any more than it makes Arvo Paert's "pop" because it was written last year.

There is a universe of "one hit wonders" who hit a home run the first time at bat, and then either walked or struck out every other time they made it to the plate.

George Harrison was no "one hit wonder". His music has endured for decades.

Even as we speak, classical music (in he sense that people will be infected with "earworms" with it decades from now) is being composed at this very minute. At the same time, there will be composers whose songs will be forgotten 6 months from now, relegated to trivia questions on "Jeopardy".

People are still humming, decades later, George Harrison songs. He's dead. That, to me, makes his music classic, if not classical.

Of the classical music being composed now most will fall into relative obscurity, maybe getting dragged out for a single concert around the 50th anniversary of the composer's death - but some will remain (within the classical sphere) well known...all of it will still be classical music.

I'm not denying Harrison's music anything regarding longevity, all I'm saying is that calling it classical (as opposed to classic) merely because it is well known well after composition is like calling Arvo Paert pop because it is new music. In 100 years time I suspect that both Harrison and Paert's music will still be played, Paert's will still be classical and Harrison's still won't be but both will be classic.

I think 'moron' is first that comes to mind.

One point. But minus three for getting his musical terms wrong.