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Sunday, 15 October 2017

Premodernist qualities

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Postwar modernist ideology infiltrated music life in Germany immediately after the Second World War (and naturally, often with the same peop...
Thursday, 12 October 2017

Boulez, again

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Searching the internet for something, I stumbled upon this interesting discussions about Boulez again, which I had forgotten about, on the...

Experiments against reality

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I stumbled into an interesting article of amost 20 years old, but with strikingly appropriate overtones for our own time. Quote: The po...

Renewal

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What is 'renewal' in the arts, in art music? From Romanticism onwards, it has been the individual, subjective approach of the artist...

Circular Zeitgeist warnings

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All those numerous atonal / serialist / sonic works, written by (counting from WW II onwards) thousands of composers, have been - if taken s...
Tuesday, 19 September 2017

French tragedy

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Some time ago, I had an interesting exchange with a french modernist composer, whose work had impressed me by its orchestral sonic brillianc...
Monday, 18 September 2017

Brainwashing the young

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At the 'New Musix Box', an American website showing material from some circles of young composers and students, a telling example wa...
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