Amusing Encounters With Non-Classical Listeners

[Florestan]

I don't understand why you seem to be proud of your behavior in this anecdote.

Yeah, my thoughts too. I wonder what the spirit is in that workplace if coworkers communicate with each other that way. 

I think you're overreacting, guys. Should we really let each and every error and mistake we encounter in a conversation go unnoticed and uncorrected? Suppose John's coworker had said something similarly wrong not about music but about physics or acoustics. Would you really have not tried to explain her that she's wrong? As long as the correction is done in a civil and polite manner I see no fault in it, on the contrary. Otherwise, people who held erroneous notions about whatever topic will persist in their errors all the while thinking they're right --- and this is not a desirable state of things. Plus, if a person is really open to knowledge, they will appreciate being corrected instead of being offended by it. Nobody knows everything and one can always learn something new from everybody else. A person who is irritated and annoyed by having her errors corrected in a conversation has a very limited mental horizon.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A contractor at a former workplace hearing the classical music I was playing said "No wonder those guys all killed themselves". He meant composers. No wonder classical composers all end their lives in suicide because their music is so clearly depressive. I think I was playing Haydn.

Simon, this is so hilarious! 

[Mirror Image]

I think you're overreacting, guys. Should we really let each and every error and mistake we encounter in a conversation go unnoticed and uncorrected? Suppose John's coworker had said something similarly wrong not about music but about physics or acoustics. Would you really have not tried to explain her that she's wrong? As long as the correction is done in a civil and polite manner I see no fault in it, on the contrary. Otherwise, people who held erroneous notions about whatever topic will persist in their errors all the while thinking they're right --- and this is not a desirable state of things. Plus, if a person is really open to knowledge, they will appreciate being corrected instead of being offended by it. Nobody knows everything and one can always learn something new from everybody else. A person who is irritated and annoyed by having her errors corrected in a conversation has a very limited mental horizon.

Exactly, Andrei. I wasn't being a jerk about it and I was being as nice as I could, which, again, with certain members there still was a fault found. Like, for example, I could give a family in need a large sum of money and keep this good deed to myself, but if I did mention this to someone on the forum, then these members would accuse me of boasting about it. There are people here who will always remain negative no matter what anyone else does that is good. The reality is this is a reflection of who they are as individuals. So let them continue to be offended and decry everything I write on this forum, because they're going to anyway.

[DavidW]

A contractor at a former workplace hearing the classical music I was playing said "No wonder those guys all killed themselves". He meant composers. No wonder classical composers all end their lives in suicide because their music is so clearly depressive. I think I was playing Haydn.

It was all the coke and hookers!

[DavidW]

I had quite a similar experience many moons ago. I was at office listening to a Mozart horn concerto when this young female colleague of mine told me "This is funeral music." I wonder what she'd have said had I been listening to the Masonic Fiuneral Music. 

Was Celibidache conducting?

[Florestan]

Was Celibidache conducting?

Hah! 

No. I don't think he ever conducted on record a Mozart horn concerto.

But, but, but --- the most exhilarating, fun and romp-ish Enescu's First Romanian Rhapsody I know was conducted by Celibidache --- nay, in my book that is actually a strong candidate for the most exhilarating, fun and romp-ish anything ever. Judge for yourself:

https://www.youtube.com/v/fwxuMDxT9Dw

[Spotted Horses]

I think you're overreacting, guys. Should we really let each and every error and mistake we encounter in a conversation go unnoticed and uncorrected? Suppose John's coworker had said something similarly wrong not about music but about physics or acoustics. Would you really have not tried to explain her that she's wrong? As long as the correction is done in a civil and polite manner I see no fault in it, on the contrary. Otherwise, people who held erroneous notions about whatever topic will persist in their errors all the while thinking they're right --- and this is not a desirable state of things. Plus, if a person is really open to knowledge, they will appreciate being corrected instead of being offended by it. Nobody knows everything and one can always learn something new from everybody else. A person who is irritated and annoyed by having her errors corrected in a conversation has a very limited mental horizon.

To the bolded text, yes, particularly if it means interrupting a conversation between people I don't know me to tell someone that they are wrong.

[Mirror Image]

To the bolded text, yes, particularly if it means interrupting a conversation between people I don't know me to tell someone that they are wrong.

These two coworkers were people that I knew and I've spoken to several times before. The break room was an open space and we were sitting at the same table, so I spoke up and said something. So what. As for my behavior, well, it was cordial and genuinely sincere --- I wasn't rude. You make it sound like you've never spoke out of turn or interrupted anyone. I suppose that halo floating around your head was earned nitpicking someone else's behavior that you didn't agree with?