What was ‘amazing’ to me on AMERICAN IDOL tonight….

What was ‘amazing’ to me on AMERICAN IDOL tonight….

wasn’t that i was watching(Tuesday April 22, 2008, 8 p.m. est) but that I was familiar/with had seen all of the musicals of ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER – and few if any of the singers/performers were familiar with any of the songs from EVITA, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, CATS and the other music of Mr. WEBBER!!! No this has nothing to do with anything as i am not particularly musical as i have NO VOICE or SENSE OF KEY(although i do ‘bang’ away on the piano still to Mozart, Liszt, ‘Little Richard’, ‘Jerry-Lee’Lewis, Chopin, etc.) BUT it amazed me that ‘singers’ did not appear to acknowledge some of the finest most melodic songs ever composed!!! IN THE SAME VEIN – I had to wonder how many writers/poets on this site had ever seen or read works by DYLAN THOMAS(the hunchback in the park, night at mcsorley’s, among others), MASTER SHAKESPEARE(his sonnets, and the incredible beauty of a midsummer night’s dream + other plays), e e cummings(in just spring, buffalo bill’s, + others), the divine EMILY DICKINSON(too many poems to relate), LANGSTON HUGHES(theme from English b, + others), or just what have ‘WE’ read or experienced???[UNDERSTAND THIS IS NOT IN ANY WAY A ‘COMPLETE LIST’ OF AUTHORS/WORKS OR IN ANY WAY DESIGNED TO SHOW YOU WHAT TO READ BUT MERELY TO MAKE A POINT AND AN ISSUE!!!]How many of us just throw out works ‘slapdash’ with no thought other than to create and not to grow by experiencing the works/thoughts of others??? Are we so obsessed with our own ‘creations’ we have no time to read/experience the intricacies of others??? ARE WE ALL CAUGHT UP WITH OUR OWN WORDS/THOUGHTS/EMOTIONS THAT WE EXCLIDE THOSE WHO WENT BEFORE US??? Can we all not learn/experience epiphanies from absorbing the words/emotions/adventures of others???