Don Satz writes:

>We have many different types of contemporary classical music to choose
>from - some like Varese, others like Part/Tavener, while others like Tan
>Dun or Danielpour.  There's no need to "dump" on those composers you don't
>like and attribute "damages" to them.

Agreed.  But to listeners, like myself, who are in CM almost exclusively
for its Romantic period (and, to a certain extent,that which preceded it)
there's a factor that does come into play.  Personally I prefer my music
live and when I go to a concert I rate highly a program that sticks to what
I'm seeking.  The inclusion in a program of bits by,say, Varese or Tan Dun
I sense as an intrusion.  (Part is to me much less of a problem.) And, as
my taste tends toward the orthodox, there's just so much mixture with the
deliberately unorthodox that I'll gladly abide.  Beyond that certain
measure, there lies for me promiscuity.  (In contrast, avant-garde art
music served up heteronomously, as in ballet or in movies, often delights
me.  So it goes.)

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