Adorno's dumb statement about how music can't be better than film

[Pluted Pup]

One of the dumbass things Adorno says, is that
film music cannot be better than the film:

"In principal film music cannot be better than
that which it accompanies", yet another dumb
thing the arrogant "critical theorist" says.

-- from the booklet to the soundtrack to the
The New Babylon / Five Days - Five Nights
soundtrack on capriccio concerning his
book collaboration with Eisler Film Compositions.

But since most Shostakovich film soundtracks are
for films that are unavailable to view it's
hard to directly verify in these cases.

[DeepBlue]

Post by Pluted Pup
One of the dumbass things Adorno says, is that
"In principal film music cannot be better than
that which it accompanies", yet another dumb
thing the arrogant "critical theorist" says.
-- from the booklet to the soundtrack to the
The New Babylon / Five Days - Five Nights
soundtrack on capriccio concerning his
book collaboration with Eisler Film Compositions.
But since most Shostakovich film soundtracks are
for films that are unavailable to view it's
hard to directly verify in these cases.

One can fill many books with Adorno's dumb
statements. This is precisely what he did.

Happy New Year!

dk