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Article: Music on Radio
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 15, 1996
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Some time ago the art pundit David Sylvester, interviewed on
Radio 3, said that nothing made him angrier than the phrase "It's a
question of taste", accompanied by a metaphorical shrug of the
shoulders. There is right and wrong in art, Sylvester asserted, and
we should know it.
Music Matters this week disingenuously asked itself, and a
number of talking heads, if good taste mattered. The regular
presenter, Ivan Hewett, started harmlessly enough by talking to an
art historian about taste in the 18th century, as defined by Lord
Burlington, promoter of Palladianism in architecture and patron of
Handel. Later, he got side-tracked by the theme of "poor" as
opposed to "bad" taste, morals rather ...