For God’s Sake
Faith schools in the UK are to teach people about other major religions. Leaders from the Church of England, Hindu, Sikh, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist followings have signed a joint statement to promote the scheme, it says here.
Good idea? Perhaps.
I think people who study music should be forced to learn about all forms of art, as well.
In fact, you know what? People who learn to play guitar should also have to learn the world’s five most popular instruments as well.
Yeah.
We’re in danger of becoming a nation of guitarists, and those pluckers should learn an instrument from each of the five main instrument groups: your woodwinds, your brass, percussion, strings and electronic.
Now we’re getting somewhere.
February 22nd, 2006 at 11:56 am
on the other hand, my wife is a guitarist and she’s kind of interested in how other instruments work: the sounds they produce and how they work with other instruments. she doesn’t want to learn to play them but she can appreciate the skill it takes and enjoy the sound they make.
dude, i’ll make a Buddhist yet.
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I think you’re making light of the growing and much under-represented problem of ‘brass extremists’.
It’s a particular problem in previously industrial areas (the north, south wales) where local communities have failed to adapt to a post-industrial world, driven primarily by the death of the mining industries.
These insular, inward-looking communties are eschewing the multi-cultural nature of the orchestra, instead choosing to ‘play their own music with theit own kind’.
These people are putting the ‘mental’ in instrumentalists.
They’re a mouthpiece for extremism.
We need to live in harmony, etc…
PS - Cliff, man. I’ve still got these Eurythmics records. I mean, a favour’s a favour, but you’re taking a liberty now.
Have you been on my Wordcloud?
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Oh yeh, they should be ‘band’
Get in!
February 22nd, 2006 at 12:44 pm
I have to admit that I have a guitar that I’m starting (very slowly to learn)…but it’s just because I haven’t got a banjo.
February 22nd, 2006 at 1:03 pm
I haven’t got a banjo string! Fact.
Cliff, man, these records…
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:35 pm
….
Cliff, man, ya gotta do something about that muppet.
Maybe hold a record-burying thing in teh back yard, or pull an Entwistle and skeet-shoot them out of the sky ( those were Daltrey’s gold records he shot, by the wya).