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From: DeepBlue <dan.koren@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Adorno's dumb statement about how music can't be better than film
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:06:59 +0000
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On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 1:29:04 +0000, Pluted Pup wrote:

>
> One of the dumbass things Adorno says, is that
> film music cannot be better than the film:
>
> "In principal film music cannot be better than
> that which it accompanies", yet another dumb
> thing the arrogant "critical theorist" says.
>
> -- from the booklet to the soundtrack to the
> The New Babylon / Five Days - Five Nights
> soundtrack on capriccio concerning his
> book collaboration with Eisler Film Compositions.
>
> But since most Shostakovich film soundtracks are
> for films that are unavailable to view it's
> hard to directly verify in these cases.

One can fill many books with Adorno's dumb
statements. This is precisely what he did.

Happy New Year!

dk