Linda Phillips ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Don Satz wrote: > >>The 20th century contributions of British composers may well outweigh the >>contributions from the American side; that's nothing unexpected either. >>The U.S. has been a great source of 'contribution' to many areas of life, >>but art music is not one of our strengths or priorities > >Hello? Has no one here ever heard of Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, ... You list a good few US composers who would have counted as avant-garde in their day yet I've seen little or no mention of any ENglish equivalents. Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars, Howard Skempton, to pick three at random. (Actually three I knew/know personally) As for diversity: well, the US has 4-5 times the population of Britain and a far more diverse population, culturally speaking, although, as somebody else pointed out, England has played home to a fair number of significant refugee composers. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]