Steve Schwartz, about the problem of accepting "progressive" music:

>...either do the work it takes or stop complaining.....

As I see it, it's only a problem when Nono or Boulez, or the likes, are
foisted on listeners, in dribs or drabs, on a classical radio station
or in a large symphony hall.  Audiences tend to abide the stuff provided
it's not too long.  Ten minutes of Webern'll pass muster.  But the average
symphony-goer or classical-radio attender is not deeply educated in
music.  As with most of his/her other pursuits, (s)he's been conditioned
to react by upbringing and pursuant experience.  (S)he might be ready
to read a bit of Pushkin in translation, but learn to read him in Russian
s(he) will not.  Trouble is, you can't translate Schnittke and you can't
ask the multitudes to seek to lend him its ears by learning to break the
sonic barrier.

Denis Fodor