Iskender Savasir responded to me: >> progressive rock, jazz rock, jazz fusion etc >> were all attempts to force hybrids. It never works, and certainly won't >> work in 'classical' music. > >I see the point you are trying to arrive at- but would it really hold >water as you state it? Doesn't the whole "nationalist agenda" of various >19th century nationalisms have a "forced" quality to it? I'm not sure what you are referring to here. Are you saying that Sibelius's Finlandia, Smetana's Ma Vlast etc were hothouse flowers? If so, I disagree. In any case, we don't have to listen to that music, whereas prog rock, jazz fusion etc were hyped by media that did not exist in the 19th century. I wonder what Miles Davis's later music would have been like without the music industry hype that told him where to go to sell records. Donald Clarke *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html