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Boulez: Let us demand more from ourselves!

Posted on the January 11th, 2010 under Music and Literature,Notes

If you want to have a more interesting life, you will make some effort. It’s about the organization of one’s life. I am still shocked that so many people are not more creative, by which I mean more demanding of themselves. The main question we need to ask ourselves is: Do I try to be ::More

Musicon / Musical education / Music and Sound Art – On The Failure of Modern Music

Music and Sound Art – On The Failure of Modern Music

Posted on the October 31st, 2009 under Musical education

“A hundred years after Schoenberg,” Joe Queenan wrote, “the public still doesn’t like anything after Transfigured Night, and even that is a stretch.” Inevitably, Queenan was lambasted as a reactionary philistine. Performances of “modern” works like this were well attended, his ::More