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Sam Pawlett:
>Charles Rosen wrote an interesting article in the New York Review of Books
>a while back defending the 'Avant-Garde' against its detractors like Andrew
>Lloyd Weber. His basic point was that works considered unlistenable when
>first published, often many years later come to be popular and a part of
>the repertoire. He lists Shoenberg, and Boulez amongst many others. He
>mentions that Beethoven's late quartets were considered too dissonant to be
>played before the public right up until WW deuce. I didn't know Rosen was
>such a defender of 'New Music' given his past writings and recordings. The
>title of the article was "Who's Afraid of the Avant-Garde". Can't remember
>the issue no. The 'Giants' of music are often only recognized many years
>after their works are published and debuted.
Check out the list archives at www.classical.net for the go-round we had
over this. The exchange was brilliantly summarized before the fact in
Stanley Donen's Bedazzled (script by Peter Cook). The devil is being told
off by his mark:
Mark: You're a bleedin' nut case!
Devil: They said that about Freud, Marx, and Galileo.
Mark: They said it about a lot of bleedin' nut cases, too!
Steve Schwartz
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