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Article: Green ketchup ... and red mustard.(Dear Reader)
- Article from:
- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Today I bought green ketchup. I'm not sure why, because I've never bought it before, but today I did.
It makes me angry that ketchup is green--and I'm not sure why.
Ketchup is supposed to be red--because it's always been that way.
Change.
We practice an art that reveres its history, a history rich in elegance and tradition. Our masterworks date from bygone eras. We still teach theoretical systems from the sixteenth century, and we perform in costumes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Simultaneously, we seek to adapt to the present--a world in which art music is sometimes overshadowed by pop and rock; a world in ...