Steve Schwartz writes:
>I'll fight you to the mat on Nono....
No you won't, Steve. Different weight class.
>And yet - talk about epatez les bourgeois - Bartok made the notorious
>remark to Nielsen after a performance of one of his violin sonatas, "Modern
>enough for you, Mr. Nielsen?"
Which would prove, if anything, that Bartok wanted to epatez the epateurs
of the bourgeois. On Stockhausen I will cede Steve and Co. the point that
he was conventional enough for Karajan to seek to perform him.
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