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John Smyth:
>It has been necessary to move on. Maybe modern music will slowly lend
>itself to new associations, though as I write this I wonder: If earlier
>music was borne out of the rhythms of body movement and speech patterns
>and inflextion, can Modern music, which eschews everything inherently
>"human," (no scarcasm here), ever be associative? If one wants it to be?
As ever, I can point to modern composers who want to communicate, who have
created such associations, who want to and have added to human experience.
I don't reject John's "eschews everything inherently 'human'" as sarcastic,
but as inaccurate. It's a stereotype based on a tiny sliver of modern and
contemporary music. It paints with way too broad a brush. It's what one
used to hear about Picasso. What such people made of "Guernica" I have no
idea.
Steve Schwartz
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