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Joel Lazar <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:32:33 -0400
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Stirling Newberry wrote:

>Joel Lazar:
>
>>We should be grateful that the author actually took the time to attend
>>a second performance of any Scelsi; in doing that he reveals a higher
>>degree of professionalism and plausibility than anything else in this
>>silly effort suggests.
>
>Sound thinking = sounds like me, thinks like me.

Not quite, Mr Newberry, and in remarking thus, you blow your own credibility
sky-high. I'm not a particular fan of Scelsi's but I don't like wise guy
criticism of contemporary music, whether it comes from a composer or a
soi-disant critic.

Joel Lazar

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