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Thanks! for sharing- Bob
I enjoyed the read.
It's so easy ...
Some people would call a seagull turd on a slate roof art. That one's easy. How and where do you draw the line, using his arguments?
There's also the grumpy old men theory.
In 50-100 years, music historians will draw the line for us and so, by then, will the "music market."
You and I, Bob, will be pushing up daisies.
But post-modernism is scary, I agree.
I don't find it scary, just not very satisfying. Reading Boulez, who Scruton rightly names the Chairman, can be informative. He's a wonderful conductor/interpreter of nineteenth century music, at least to my ears. But as Chairman of the A.G., he strikes me as wrong-headed. Or, and never trust composers who are also lecturers, self-serving. For what it's worth, I find orchestras who won't program anything later than Brahms, wrong-headed in the opposite way. I don't think we really sufficiently appreciate the real modernists --Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok...and the second tier, if we're being snobs about it, Britten, Shostakovich, Prokofiev. I listen to Ades, Schnittke, and some of the Eastern European/Russian crowd with a lot more enjoyment than Boulez and his people.
Clarity can often come across as easy.
That it's so easy to post a link that people can actually click on.
The clarity comes from looking below the text body box, and pasting your link in the "Optional Link URL" space.
Easy.
Never noticed that and have been here for...well years. So apologies to Mr. Dill, if that's what he meant.
Exactly what I mean't, no apologies required Bob, it's all good ....
Edits: 12/23/16
But the fact is, it is simple. The Avant Gard misunderstands what art is. They take the techniques the modernists mixed with traditional forms to revitalize tradition and try to make an aesthetic out of them all by themselves. Sometimes the clverest of their music diverts, amuses, charms but Scuton is right: it can't do much else. And while many of us, including me, listen to some of it with some pleasure, we know that it's a dead end. It doesn't lead anywhere anymore than it comes from anyhere. Many of us read John Ashbery and are amused. But we also know that we're being had. That can be fun, of course...
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