Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I think music does not have to be beautiful.  It is art: art wants to
>express and sometimes it wants to express things which are not beautiful,
>things like anger, grief, ugliness, crime, jealousy etc.  Then the music
>must not be beautiful.

But that which is not beautiful is not necessarily art; otherwise we
would place landfills on museums (there are some museums, admittedly...).
Unlike Penderecki, say, Ustvolskaya's little studies say less to me than
their abrasively textured surface...  there's a safeness in her apparent
radicalism which quickly puts me to sleep.  If the sound textures speak
to you, go grab her strangely broad discography; if they don't, you don't
really need to feel that there's a hidden jewel here....

All the best,
Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>