tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post3594413298402947374..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: Capriol SuiteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-57225917091019033022013-11-16T13:09:30.687+11:002013-11-16T13:09:30.687+11:00I see your point, Mr Richardson, and the music is ...I see your point, Mr Richardson, and the music is indeed attractive, although as always, I do wonder how repellent an artist has to be before anyone studying his work says "Thus far and no farther."<br /><br />These days I can no longer listen to even the better works of Benjamin Britten any more. His infantile leftism; his physical cowardice when better men than he were dying in Normandy and Auschwitz; above all, his habitual pedophilia (he would never get a police clearance if he were still with us): these vitiate in my mind whatever intense but slender creative talent he possessed. <br /><br />I no longer want to see any artwork by Eric Gill either, for similar reasons. (Except that Gill's vices included incest - both intra- and inter-generational - and bestiality).<br /><br />Do you want to know what my definition of a real conservative, as opposed to a fake-conservative of the Abbott-Cameron variety, is, Mr Richardson? It is this. <br /><br />A real conservative accepts Paul Johnson's dictum on Hemingway: "his life holds a lesson all intellectuals need to learn: that art is not enough." A fake conservative feels no compunction publicly whining about "censorship", "philistines", "bigotry", "homophobia" etc.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-73644979113851451382013-11-14T22:12:26.359+11:002013-11-14T22:12:26.359+11:00Robert, it's true that Warlock is not an attra...Robert, it's true that Warlock is not an attractive figure, but nonetheless it's fine music. That's all I'm presenting it as.Mark Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961688379656119701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-36247834074775739302013-11-14T20:48:45.003+11:002013-11-14T20:48:45.003+11:00Well, Warlock didn't compose it, in any but th...Well, Warlock didn't <i>compose</i> it, in any but the vaguest sense. It's an arrangement - as the rest of the suite is - of material that Warlock found in a 1589 dance collection by the Frenchman Thoinot Arbeau: <i>Orchésographie</i>.<br /><br />Incidentally, given the extent to which Warlock (real name Philip Heseltine, of course) had his brains scrambled by nudism, by alcoholism, and by black magic of an Aleister-Crowley-ish sort, he does seem an odd choice for OzConservative approval.Robertnoreply@blogger.com