Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I, for one, don't believe any of it, and in the 40 years I've been hearing
>such claims, never did.  I know Dave isn't accusing me of believing the
>stuff.  Yet I want to go on record.  I don't care whether another Beethoven
>is among us, because I probably wouldn't recognize this music as that
>important anyway.  I, too, deny Christ.  As far as I'm concerned, *any*
>music written in my time is of my time.

As Edgard Varese remarked (as closely as I can recall): no artist is ahead
of his time; most people are years behind theirs.

>If someone cares to write in the style of Mozart, that's part of my time
>(and probably, as a cultural phenomenon if nothing else, a fairly
>interesting part).

I'm sure you're familiar with Borges' "Pierre Menard, author of the
Quixote"?

Deryk Barker
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