Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>It's a pity Bo Nilsson abandoned a decent modern style.  What is it with
>those composers - so many return to tepid quasi-tonality.

Almost without exception, the reason given is either the aesthetic
limitations of the modernist style (great at sounding grumpy; lousy at
being happy) or the absence of any real audience for the approach no matter
how good the work is.  Writing works for the solitary soul is probaby the
most barren kind of art; & the idea that an artist should follow a style
simply because it's currently considered to be decently modern is a pretty
good working definition of intellectual kitsch.

Live in peace
[log in to unmask]
endeavour2 project <http://www.geocities.com/robtclements/endeavour2.html>