Iskender Savasir responded to me:

>> progressive rock, jazz rock, jazz fusion etc
>> were all attempts to force hybrids.  It never works, and certainly won't
>> work in 'classical' music.
>
>I see the point you are trying to arrive at- but would it really hold
>water as you state it?  Doesn't the whole "nationalist agenda" of various
>19th century nationalisms have a "forced" quality to it?

I'm not sure what you are referring to here.  Are you saying that
Sibelius's Finlandia, Smetana's Ma Vlast etc were hothouse flowers? 
If so, I disagree.  In any case, we don't have to listen to that music,
whereas prog rock, jazz fusion etc were hyped by media that did not exist
in the 19th century.  I wonder what Miles Davis's later music would have
been like without the music industry hype that told him where to go to
sell records.

Donald Clarke

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