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>Most composers, including Benjamin and Stirling, want to be heard.
>Otherwise, what's the point of writing in the first place? However,
>resources are scarce.  If a composer takes the trouble to write words
>rather than music in the first place, it shouldn't really strike anyone as
>odd or even sinister that he should want to smooth the path to performance.
>Why not, after all? The problem is that because of scarce resources,
>there's an awful lot of good stuff that goes unheard.  The same people tend
>to be played.  New people are found in the places where the old people were
>found.  I can name (but I won't) three composers on this list who should
>have a wider audience and who will have to blow up a dam or something
>equally spectacular to get that wider hearing.  Is their music that much
>less than, say, Ades or Torke? Not to me.  They simply have the bad fortune
>to have studied with the wrong teachers in the wrong part of the country.

Look......I'm a composer.......I am not a published composer.....YET...this
is my choice mind you.  I write music for me.......not to be performed....I
would LOVE to have my stuff performed at the NY Philharmonic.  If it never
gets performed then it isn't a loss to me because I am really writing for
me.  My music is no lesser than Torke or Stirling's or Brahms' or anyone
else's.  I don't feel that there is such a thing as better than in an
artistic scenario.  It's all a matter of taste.  I guess accessible music
is music that appeals to a higher percentage of the general populous than
not.  I'm not studying with the wrong teachers........in fact...I'm
studying on my own right now.  Whether I become known(Which I will do
someday I assure you) or not....will not depend upon who I have associated
myself with but rather how far I am willing to go to get some play time.
I wish the other composers of this list good luck in attaining the kind of
reknown they desire or deserve.  I think I will become well known because
I write good music.........nothing experimental or 65 tone microtonal or
electrical but rather just the honest, unpretentios music I hear in my
head.

--Wes Crone (Composer to his royal highness......the honorable Wes Crone)
=:^)