Donald Clarke:

> but the question remains: how often have Robert Simpson, Michael
> Tippett, Harold Shapero, Walter Piston etc etc been played in
> Milwaukee or anywhere else?  Nothing difficult about these composers
> and they have musical personalities of their own

I've never heard any of these composers in Milwaukee and I'd sure like
to.  I have heard Tippett in Boston and Shapero in Chicago.  Milwaukee
is in fact playing a lot of American symphonies this season--in consequence
of a large directed gift, I have heard, and I'd love to be able to sponsor
that sort of thing myself.  For years I have wanted orchestras to play
more music of this sort, both because I like it and because it would
prove to audiences that not all "modern" music is like Wuorinen's.

Jim Tobin

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