Iskender Savasir wrote:

>Would people care to expound on what is wrong with "cross over" or
>"fusion"?  I tend to think that the kind of "purism", that such reactions
>against cross-over pine after is characteristic of a very limited time-san
>or oevrue even within the short history of classical music.

Nothing is wrong with 'crossover' or 'fusion'.  But nowadays 'crossover'
is a marketing term: few of us on this list will be interested in a Welsh
schoolgirl or Lloyd Webber's ex-wife singing whatever some producer
thought might make the Billboard chart.  And the trouble with fusions
in music is that they can't be forced, like hothouse flowers.  Jazz
itself was a fusion from the beginning; so was rock'n'roll; but these
happened naturally, while progressive rock, jazz rock, jazz fusion etc
were all attempts to force hybrids.  It never works, and certainly won't
work in 'classical' music.

Donald Clarke

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