Len Fehskens wrote:

>Satoshi Akima writes:
>
>>The 20th century - were you there?
>
>...snide implication of closemindedness or philistinism that grates on
>those of us who think that serialism was an interesting idea that didn't
>pan out, but still listen to a great deal of "modern" music....  So
>yes, I was there.

C'mon folks, the 20th century is...or was.  By definition all the music
written during that time defines the music of the 20th century.  So you
choose a subset of that music to listen to and enjoy, but don't assume you
understand the music of the 20th century if you close your ears to the rest
of it.  One may hold that opinion of serialism, and one may not understand
it, and maybe people don't write using those techniques so much as they did
50 years ago, but it makes no sense to say it didn't pan out.  That implies
it was a failed experiment--that it tried to do something and failed.  WHAT
did it fail to do? That is the question, and I haven't heard an answer yet.

Chris Bonds