[mb-style] Bach passions and CSG

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 00:26 -0400, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
> >
> >> ... some of the editors who don't participate in the lists and who
> >> don't really know CSG well yet are paying attention to everything we
> >> do, but not the reasons we do it...
> >
> > Like me, for example. And I probably won't be able to fathom some of the
> > reasons at this point, as it seems require in-depth knowledge of the
> > artists, their works, the history of the handling and cataloging of
> > their works in order to grasp.
> >
>
> Hi again,
> I can only speak for myself, but I'm a dabbler who happens to like music
> and am fairly good at googling :)
>
> You learn to find some valuable sources of information as you move along
> - I believe it was you who showed me
> http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/ , an essential reference
> for the MB opera voter and editor :)
>
> While it is great to have people that knows every minute detail of
> this-or-that composer, it should not be needed to be at MB. When we do
> disagree on something for classical, it is perhaps unavoidable that a
> certain amount of score fetishism and numerological beliefs are
> developed...
>
> > However, I am good at following established patterns and standards, and
> > tend to be good at not questioning them unless I cannot sense a method
> > to their madness. Suffice to say, probably a large percentage of your
> > editors are in the same boat as me.
> >
>
> Other places in this thread (for SMP and Messiah) I've dug up some data
> indicating that the
> fill-in-all-conceivable-and-even-redundant-details-sentiment is quite
> new. And there seems to be no consensus on this now, either.
>
> Now it's up to you to find out how *you* want track titles to look for
> the artsts you subscribe to :)
>

Yes and no. I mean: "yes" for "like", but I believe there are other matters
which should be taken into account than liking. Completeness is useful
because one never knows what will be useful and when. A little like a
dictionary: we want as many things as possible in there, but when we are
looking for something, we don't want to see more than what we are looking
for.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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