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Nothing can be added to so much truth. However, I would say that the advent of modern recordings has shifted fame from the composers (the real artists) to the performers (often very skilled mediums). When we go to a concert, the centre of attention is not Brahms or Mozart, but Volodos or the Vienna Philharmonic. Recordings have given performers a power they never had before. Even if Mahler or Mendelssohn were great conductors themselves, we don't remember them as conductors, we remember them as composers. That won't be the case with Barenboim, Muti or Thielemann (even though I adore the latter).

Shame he didn't mention how hedgehogs have taught many of the younger generation how to cross the road safely.

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Out of the two brothers Peter was always a solid third.

While I agree with the sentiments about the benality of most pop music, his arguments are very melodramatic. If he was to listen to and engage deeply with pop music, he would find there to be some wisdom buried in there. You cannot write off all pop music in one fell swoop (although he does concede later in the video that there are differences in quality amongst pop music). Suggesting we legally ban people from playing music in public is absolutely absurd and best suited to a totalitarian society. I agree with his idea to expand young people’s minds and to encourage silence.

I liked him better when he was the singer in The Small Faces..

In July 2024, a communist lawyer called Starmer will win the General Election, but because the Conservative Party are not actually Conservative in any way. Speaking here, Hitchens was right.

The interviewers big breaths waiting to crowbar a question in, are driving me nuts

Thanks for all the brilliant remarks in the comments - nearly as good as Rory.

Rory Stewart is an incredible person. We could do with many more of him in politics. Or even just him, actually.

Utterly predictable thatcherite boomer psuedo-intellectual going on a misanthropic autistic rant about how these damn kids don't appreciate classical music and are "addicted" to listening to pop music like any of us actually choose to listen to that garbage when its playing in the grocery store. No wonder the British youth hate their elders when this is the caliber of person they choose to listen to instead of them.

We should create a movement rumourless! We can no longer stay for more than 2 minutes in all the places that impose their loudness, which is also pollution for the health of our ears! In memory of the wise Sir Scruton!

I've been saying this for years. Glad someone spoke to the world about it.

Reiterating the question of having the full recording

assailed yes

A somewhat pompous and, at times, rather melodramatic discourse.

Rory Stewart was too good for us. The perfect example of a sensible person who'd make meaningful differences to the UK but is kept from doing so by the very institution designed to implement these changes.

Clueless American here. Why isn't this man in charge of your government?

I'm glad Boris Johnson won the 2019 Tory Leadership Elections

Last night, I sat through a TV broadcast of Mahler’s 2nd symphony. I’m no great fan of his music, but sought the experience of absorbing and contemplating his extended forms. By the end of the piece, I was glad I’d ‘subjected’ myself to it. I found this aspect rather satisfying, artistically. Liking or disliking the music, had become almost irrelevant. The radio series this speech was a part of, has become poorer since Roger passed on.

This guy talks a lot of sense, I find him easy to listen to, he is a very intelligent guy who makes a lot of good points on various topics

This is a fact, not an opinion.

Peter, write your memoirs

Hitchens is so spot on with everything

It's a lot of questions, for example, of the Jewish people at World War 2. As a whole, Christian people suffer the most millions of people died.. But there's never been a real honest. Discussion on how certain people died in concentration camps. Was it done on purpose with done an accident? There's a big thing out there that adolf hitler's mother was Catholic. And adolf hitler's father was jewish. But the 2 never married and that the father didn't want to do anything with the mother.After he found out she was pregnant. We also know that there were jewish generals in the military for the germans. As I see it, the German people were set up by the rulers of that time they created all these problems. The average German knew nothing of what was happening, but they laid all the blame on them.. The black. S were brought up North in the late 50s. What was the true intent of this? The big cities now north have been in decline ever since. Are the blacks being used to break down white civilization?I say yes. I respect this man, but if he watches t, v, you will see that most of the biracial couples that's placed on our t.V.Set advertisements cartoons is black males with white females. Then you got the mass of migration into america and europe as white society dies off. It's been nice to have a discussion with this man. He is very smart and I agree with him wholeheartedly. According to FBI statistics in the United States. There's a lot more black & white crime for the last 5060 years.. And as you can see what's happening in Europe through flooding, all the Western nations with all these immigrants from the third world.Hell holes. And if that wasn't enough we gotta push our own culture and we have to uphold theirs as they shit all over the european people.

Well, we would need a real education system and real parents. Good luck.

“Yeah but women……….but you know, what about women? But are women represented? Because women. Women.

Props to Metallica! Was worried there for a sec. Got to love Scruton.

Great

pop music addiction is real and causes depression

Hearing this speech was very well received in the hedgehog community

Rudyard Kipling wrote popular songs, and bawdy songs were written in Elizabethan times (songs which are still performed today, 400 years later). What did Noel Coward say? " Extraordinary how potent cheap musc is." I love many classical pieces, but it's worth while to remember that only the very best of it remains.There was a lot of it that just disappeared. The same is true of popular music. The best will live on, and the rest will be abandoned. The only true judge of a work of art is time. Meanwhile, Scruton is like that most unlikeable of characters, the wine snob, except with music.

Reminds me of an essay I recently read, titled "when hooligans bach down" (no typing error). It was about a shop in a good area of Brighton, the owner had classy customers, but suddenly hooligans started to gather in front of his shop and they came to stay. He was facing bancruptcy, because his well-off customers stayed away. Then, one day, he installed loudspeakers outside the window and played Johann Sebastian Bach - within one day they vanished and never came back (the hools).

Old man shouts at clouds. I wish pub's didn't have music blaring out but its not the end of the world.

Bah bah. Blah blah blah. To think Brits keep voting for all these clowns 🤡

Rap and drill ( vile name for a vile “ music “)…..these supposed genres of what was once hip hop ….sings of the glorification of violence of money by any means ….encouraging the young of their own communities to aspire to be a “ stone cold killer “ with all the trappings of rich people is the highest form of success….and look where it has led that community Look how each successive generation has doubled down on the last ….forever in love with their self sabotage and dysfunction …..all the while ignoring the real choices and chances for a better life and a wholesome community…..sad and pathetic

Sounds like he’s describing the horrid “praise and worship” music currently spread in churches. As shallow a form of music man has developed, both in its melody and vapid lyrics.

I remember this being featured as a Higher English UAE Paper (Scotland)

Pathetic garbage from Florence of Belgravia. No wonder we're circling the plughole with upper class twits like him in charge.Clear off back to Eton.

Wow the women lie with straight faces. That is a skill.

😂 brilliant

But... will/has "raise the hedgehog" become a euphemism? XD Much love from Canada.

Omg i am "like" falling victim to like too! In fact I am "like" knocking it off! 😅

I wish I could have gone to hear live any of his presentations.

And to think, this presentation was 7-years ago! Could Sir Scruton have imagined how it’s gotten staggeringly worse. As hard as you try to shut it out, you can’t run away from Hip Hop, R&B, House and other ear-shattering noise pretending to be music. Scruton was so ahead of his time.

Roger is one of the greatest intellectuals of all time!!

It even became worth since then - we are not only flooded with cheap muzak everywhere, but are surrounded by video screens: at gas stations, restaurants, airport lounges, you can`t escape them, as if someone behind the scene does not want us to be left in quiet, thinking, reading, whatever. And if no sounds or visual impacts are molesting us, for sure some blithering idiot next to you will entertain you with the crap that he/she shouts into his bloody phone.

P. S. This is too one-sided! What of Reggae, Celtic Folk, World Music, etc. Moreover, MANY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO PLAY INSTRUMENTS NOWADAYS. THE OLD WHINGE TOO MUCH!

There is wonderful classical music, and hideous classical pieces. So it is with rock and pop. Scrutin may be referring both to muzak, and to machine-generated noise such as techno. Or inane rhymes, as in rap. Long live The Beatles, and also progressive British rock!

Sad enough that our youth enjoy South Park styled "humor", but not some real politically incorrect jokes!