Tony Frazer says:
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"And if anyone thinks of the current serious music world as being "open"
see what the reviews of Steve Reich have been like over recent years,
not to mention LaMonte Young or John Cage."
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and Ric Caddel says (of the Armitage/Crawford anthology):
A whole generation which emerged from the sixties onwards has been
landscaped out .......
This seems to me to constitute a serious failure in something which
sets out to "survey". They could have made excuses for their
preferences in their introduction, but they didn't. All this work just
isn't worth mentioning. This, to me, leans towards the "exclusion of
contrary points of view" which Ken refers to.
Well, I think there's an important difference. Whether the "musical
establishment" is anti-Reich/Cage/etc or not, whether reviews are negative
(and they aren't usually these days) the fact remains their work is
programmed, played on Radio 3, reviewed in the posh papers. If it's reviled
by some, it's reviled openly. Whereas their equivalents in poetry are
simply airbrushed out. They don't exist. It's as if minimalism,
experimentalism, twelve-tone composition, new complexity and everything
except diatonic, neo-classical or romantic composition (and pop music) was
completely ignored.
PS Interesting that all Tony's examples of pluralistic magazines are
Australian.
PPS A collaboration between S Armitage and A Fisher? Ye gods, what a
frightful chimera!
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