It seems to be a part of the seascape these days, suggests Joseph
Horowitz in the NY Times today, in his criticism of the upcoming PBS series
"Great Composers." "What finally disapppoints about (the series)," Horowitz
writes, "is not the restriction on intellectual and musical content, but
something more basic.  For some time now, the canon of Western classical
music has not defined what is musically best and most prestigious."

"Already," Horowitz goes on, "the concept of an elite caste of dead
European composers, sources of timeless and eternal high art, caricatures
itself."

Is it too late, in Horowitz's words, "to hope for something better
from public television:something more timely, more challenging, more

John Dalmas
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