 |
 |
Editor:
In regards to the Sept. 19 article "The Kat Kame Back." After reading the whole article, and even checking out the sound bytes from the Web site given, I had to shake my head. I agree with Kat 100 percent about classical music needing a new surge of life, but I see the rest of the article as just hype.
If I may be politely blunt, the offerings of her music on the Web site are nothing more than speed metal played with a violin instead of a guitar and screwdriver. As an amateur guitarist, I can most certainly admire anyone who can hammer out notes at a rapid fire - I can't even do that myself using three fingers and a thumb - but instead of "waking up" I found myself reaching for the stop button because I heard music that had no soul, and it certainly wasn't imaginative.
In addition, while I found Kat's comments about our brain-dead culture to be refreshingly cynical and quite amusing, I think that the juvenile manner with which she presented her views certainly doesn't help her case: it reinforces the mental image I have of a professional wrestler getting interviewed in the press box just before getting into the ring.
Henry Wyckoff
soil, water, and environmental science
graduate student
|
|
|