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Margaret Mikulska <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 15 Jun 2002 02:27:19 -0400
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Mike Leghorn wrote:

>Oops, you caught me red handed!  I think it's safe to say that if Oliveros
>had received as much credit for her work as Stravinsky or Britten, I would
>have heard of her.  That was my point.  How many people writing on this
>thread have heard of her, or have heard her work?  [...]

She's been one of the best known avant-garde composers for many years now,
although she may be known better in California.

C'mon, Stravinsky or Britten are classics who've been in the canon for a
good half-a-century.  Oliveros is a generation or two younger.

-Margaret Mikulska

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