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READER: The purpose of music
- Linda Rogers (August 6, 2004 10:46 am)

READER: Thank you to all
- Jennifer Higdon (August 6, 2004 10:10 am)

READER: To Corey Dargel and Kyle Gann
- Garth Trinkl (August 6, 2004 9:21 am)

READER: re:Where Are The Young Voices?
- Andrea La Rose (August 6, 2004 9:21 am)

READER: To Justin: Art can be entertaining, but it is not entertainment
- Arthur J. Sabatini (August 6, 2004 8:42 am)

Final Disinformation

- Kyle Gann (August 6, 2004 8:41 am)

READER: Where Are The Young Voices?
- Corey Dargel (August 6, 2004 8:21 am)

Over and out - an anti-rant rant
- Justin Davidson (August 6, 2004 7:05 am)

READER: Classical Music Doesn't Fit The PR Mold
- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (August 5, 2004 9:21 pm)

READER: Eclecticism Is Better Anyway
- Hale Jacob (August 5, 2004 7:41 pm)

READER: What Is Live Performance, Anyway?
- Steve Layton (August 5, 2004 7:37 pm)

New music game theory
- Joshua Kosman (August 5, 2004 5:45 pm)

What I learned
- Scott Cantrell (August 5, 2004 5:15 pm)

A minor quibble
- Scott Cantrell (August 5, 2004 5:01 pm)

READER: Some Simple Gratitude
- Mark Stryker (August 5, 2004 4:07 pm)

READER: But What of the Squeakfartists?
- John Shaw (August 5, 2004 2:44 pm)

Late to the party
- Joshua Kosman (August 5, 2004 2:09 pm)

Farewell?
- John Rockwell (August 5, 2004 1:35 pm)

To Andrew
- Kyle Gann (August 5, 2004 12:50 pm)

READER: Who Said Anything About Pop Musicians?
- Garth Trinkl (August 5, 2004 11:47 am)

Some tail-end thoughts
- John von Rhein (August 5, 2004 10:34 am)

Reality Bites
- Andrew Druckenbrod (August 5, 2004 9:19 am)

READER: Gann's Got It Right
- Jan Herman (August 5, 2004 8:37 am)

Kyle to Kyle (or vice versa)
- Kyle Gann (August 5, 2004 8:37 am)

What does it all mean?
- Kyle MacMillan (August 5, 2004 8:11 am)

To Kyle Gann
- Kyle MacMillan (August 5, 2004 8:05 am)

READER: Big Ideas? How About Melody?
- John N. McBaine (August 5, 2004 7:25 am)

Leave No Term Unstoned
- Kyle Gann (August 5, 2004 7:04 am)

Baffled
- Greg Sandow (August 5, 2004 6:25 am)

Recessional
- Alex Ross (August 4, 2004 6:39 pm)

READER: so what's the big idea?
- John Shaw (August 4, 2004 4:28 pm)

For Joan La Barbara
- Alex Ross (August 4, 2004 3:12 pm)

READER: Point of Clarification
- Marc Geelhoed (August 4, 2004 2:43 pm)

READER: A Little of This, A Little of That
- B. Fleming (August 4, 2004 2:25 pm)

READER: Lists, Categories, & Big Ideas Miss The Point
- Joan La Barbara (August 4, 2004 2:12 pm)

READER: Education & Audience Engagement
- John Shaw (August 4, 2004 2:03 pm)

Challenges, if not ideas
- Scott Cantrell (August 4, 2004 12:54 pm)

To Anne, On Directors
- Alex Ross (August 4, 2004 12:07 pm)

To market, to market
- Anne Midgette (August 4, 2004 11:43 am)

Staging big ideas
- Anne Midgette (August 4, 2004 11:34 am)

Marketing madness
- Andrew Druckenbrod (August 4, 2004 11:32 am)

a few small ideas
- Anne Midgette (August 4, 2004 10:53 am)

Composers are the next big thing
- Andrew Druckenbrod (August 4, 2004 9:52 am)

READER: A Matter of Education
- Beata Moon (August 4, 2004 8:45 am)

READER: Back To Big Ideas
- Garth Trinkl (August 4, 2004 8:34 am)

To Justin
- Kyle Gann (August 4, 2004 7:32 am)

Attempt at an overview
- Alex Ross (August 4, 2004 7:30 am)

To Kyle
- Justin Davidson (August 4, 2004 7:21 am)

To Justin
- Kyle Gann (August 4, 2004 6:44 am)

READER: Another Composer's Viewpoint
- Beata Moon (August 4, 2004 6:42 am)

Downtown untouchables
- Justin Davidson (August 4, 2004 6:39 am)

Uptown and downtown have merged
- Kyle Gann (August 4, 2004 6:16 am)

Nothing to Do with Big Ideas

- Kyle Gann (August 4, 2004 5:57 am)

READER: Insulted Concert-goers
- Marc Geelhoed (August 4, 2004 12:40 am)

Frustration and obscurity
- Justin Davidson (August 3, 2004 8:54 pm)

READER: Critical Civility
- AC Douglas (August 3, 2004 7:16 pm)

READER: apologies
- John Shaw (August 3, 2004 7:15 pm)

READER: Mr. Context
- Arthur J. Sabatini (August 3, 2004 7:14 pm)

Shifting Ground
- John Rockwell (August 3, 2004 3:39 pm)

Let's cool it
- Scott Cantrell (August 3, 2004 3:06 pm)

READER: All-American Music
- John Shaw (August 3, 2004 2:45 pm)

READER: "Big Ideas" - Which Direction?
- Steve Layton (August 3, 2004 2:32 pm)

READER: Seeking Multiple Judgments
- Garth Trinkl (August 3, 2004 2:30 pm)

Metrocard
- John Rockwell (August 3, 2004 2:24 pm)

To Arthur Sabatini
- Alex Ross (August 3, 2004 1:39 pm)

Posting III. Music as personal insult
- Wynne Delacoma (August 3, 2004 12:33 pm)

READER: John Rockwell on Gann and Ross, and Greg, too
- Arthur J. Sabatini (August 3, 2004 10:10 am)

I Go Where the Money Rolls
- Kyle Gann (August 3, 2004 9:20 am)

To Justin: Good Idea
- Douglas McLennan (August 3, 2004 7:44 am)

The Weimar Identity
- Alex Ross (August 3, 2004 7:39 am)

READER: Glad to be that somebody
- David Carter (August 3, 2004 7:19 am)

READER: Big Idea? Not
- Nicholas Kenyon (August 3, 2004 7:18 am)

For Kyle, Doug and Alex
- John Rockwell (August 3, 2004 7:11 am)

Ideology and Idea
- Justin Davidson (August 3, 2004 6:33 am)

READER: Big Ideas... Who Needs Them?
- James Weaver (August 2, 2004 11:29 pm)

The Idea of No Idea
- Alex Ross (August 2, 2004 11:28 pm)

Way Beyond Crossover
- Kyle MacMillan (August 2, 2004 8:56 pm)

Improvisation -- for Tom
- Greg Sandow (August 2, 2004 8:38 pm)

READER: To Greg, Justin: Hermetic Music
- Tom Hamilton (August 2, 2004 7:32 pm)

No Apocalpse Now
- Douglas McLennan (August 2, 2004 6:06 pm)

READER: A Problem of Marketing
- Corey Dargel (August 2, 2004 5:59 pm)

READER: Of Sheep Heads and Music
- P. Bailey (August 2, 2004 5:56 pm)

READER: Re Kyle's Listening Examples...
- Steve Layton (August 2, 2004 9:53 am)

READER: Marketing anyone?
- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (August 2, 2004 9:35 am)

READER: A Post-Literate Musical Future
- John Halle (August 2, 2004 9:31 am)

Thanks, Kyle
- Justin Davidson (August 2, 2004 7:54 am)

Listening Examples Provided

- Kyle Gann (August 2, 2004 7:45 am)

proposal
- Justin Davidson (August 2, 2004 4:35 am)

READER: Follow the Architecture
- Garth Trinkl (August 1, 2004 2:30 pm)

READER: How Do Ideas Get Big?
- Arthur J. Sabatini (August 1, 2004 2:28 pm)

Reply to Kyle, and a plea
- John Rockwell (August 1, 2004 1:34 pm)

READER: The Next Big Idea
- John Heins (August 1, 2004 1:11 pm)

READER: Of Social Complexity And Other "High" Arts
- John Shaw (August 1, 2004 8:45 am)

READER: Two Important Threads
- Jonathan Gresl (July 31, 2004 6:01 pm)

READER: Why is it "Classical?"
- Sophia Loke (July 31, 2004 6:00 pm)

To Justin: Hermetic music
- Greg Sandow (July 31, 2004 4:47 pm)

READER: A Still More Disturbing Question
- Brian Newhouse (July 30, 2004 7:28 pm)

Queries for John Rockwell
- Kyle Gann (July 30, 2004 4:18 pm)

Jotting IV: Grab bag
- Charles Ward (July 30, 2004 3:55 pm)

Performance ideas
- Greg Sandow (July 30, 2004 2:39 pm)

Unfair on my Part
- Kyle Gann (July 30, 2004 2:33 pm)

Posting II. Composer bashing, female critics, form and content
- Wynne Delacoma (July 30, 2004 1:57 pm)

What's success?
- Scott Cantrell (July 30, 2004 1:04 pm)

arrgh, or however you spell it
- John Rockwell (July 30, 2004 12:16 pm)

Clarifcation, Departure
- Alex Ross (July 30, 2004 11:49 am)

READER: Wow!
- Jan Herman (July 30, 2004 11:24 am)

Fighting Words with Words
- Kyle Gann (July 30, 2004 11:18 am)

READER: Quit Complaining, Start Writing
- Marc Geelhoed (July 30, 2004 10:59 am)

READER: Defending Kyle
- John Shaw (July 30, 2004 10:54 am)

READER:Un-Self-Consciousness In Seattle
- Gavin Borchert (July 30, 2004 10:51 am)

The New New Thing
- Alex Ross (July 30, 2004 9:42 am)

READER: Kyle, I Hear You
- John Shaw (July 30, 2004 9:23 am)

What's the Big Idea?
- Anne Midgette (July 30, 2004 8:32 am)

To Kyle, and Richard Einhorn
- Justin Davidson (July 30, 2004 7:47 am)

READER: Money Vs. "Music That Matters"
- Richar Einhorn (July 30, 2004 7:47 am)

READER: Flogging For Novelty?
- Joanne Forman (July 30, 2004 7:45 am)

Composer Bashing
- Kyle Gann (July 30, 2004 7:40 am)

READER: Jazz - MIA?
- George Hunka (July 30, 2004 7:25 am)

Who's saying Give Up?
- Justin Davidson (July 30, 2004 7:02 am)

Inside a Big Idea

- Kyle Gann (July 30, 2004 6:54 am)

Some things are new, actually.
- Justin Davidson (July 30, 2004 5:56 am)

READER: Pop is Not Off-Topic
- John Shaw (July 30, 2004 12:29 am)

READER: Time is not of the Essence
- Tom Myron (July 30, 2004 12:13 am)

Provocation!
- Alex Ross (July 29, 2004 10:42 pm)

Jotting III: When John Rockwell took a coalition of the willing to a downtown club, or, will critics ever shed the need to be tragically hip.
- Charles Ward (July 29, 2004 9:27 pm)

READER: Is Hip-Hop The Big Idea?
- Tim Rutherford-Johnson (July 29, 2004 7:07 pm)

Pop music precedent
- Scott Cantrell (July 29, 2004 3:09 pm)

READER: Not One Line In The Sand
- Molly Sheridan (July 29, 2004 3:02 pm)

To: AC Douglas
- Alex Ross (July 29, 2004 3:01 pm)

A few responses to other postings
- Anne Midgette (July 29, 2004 2:57 pm)

Back to fragmentation for a minute
- Anne Midgette (July 29, 2004 2:27 pm)

READER: Waiting For Godot
- Colin Eatock (July 29, 2004 1:48 pm)

READER: No More Historical Progress
- Richard Einhorn (July 29, 2004 1:44 pm)

READER: Pop Innovation (Alex Ross)
- Jeff H. (July 29, 2004 1:24 pm)

the magpie
- John Rockwell (July 29, 2004 1:10 pm)

Beyond categories?
- Alex Ross (July 29, 2004 1:00 pm)

Composers are composers, but distinctions are still worthwhile
- Andrew Druckenbrod (July 29, 2004 12:47 pm)

High/Low Redux
- Justin Davidson (July 29, 2004 12:42 pm)

Multiculturalism
- Scott Cantrell (July 29, 2004 12:31 pm)

Fragmentation
- Scott Cantrell (July 29, 2004 12:01 pm)

Reader Intervention: A Musicologist Crashes The Party!
- Robert Fink (July 29, 2004 11:26 am)

READER: Classically Not Pop
- AC Douglas (July 29, 2004 10:49 am)

Female critics
- Scott Cantrell (July 29, 2004 10:28 am)

Pop Innovation
- Alex Ross (July 29, 2004 10:07 am)

No apology to pop and film
- Andrew Druckenbrod (July 29, 2004 9:26 am)

Gender footnote
- Anne Midgette (July 29, 2004 9:07 am)

Another preamble
- Anne Midgette (July 29, 2004 7:50 am)

READER: If Wishes Were Ideas
- John Harris (July 29, 2004 7:11 am)

pop envy
- Justin Davidson (July 29, 2004 6:11 am)

Jotting II: Personally, I’d rather not get a telephone call from Stalin.
- Charles Ward (July 28, 2004 9:24 pm)

A Potential Goldmine?
- Alex Ross (July 28, 2004 7:57 pm)

right on!
- John Rockwell (July 28, 2004 7:16 pm)

READER: What Do The Critics Want?
- John Shaw (July 28, 2004 7:03 pm)

Truly big classical ideas
- Greg Sandow (July 28, 2004 6:09 pm)

Where was THAT in classical music?
- Justin Davidson (July 28, 2004 5:59 pm)

Another view
- Greg Sandow (July 28, 2004 4:02 pm)

Names and their Inadequacy
- Kyle Gann (July 28, 2004 3:58 pm)

Movements and media
- Scott Cantrell (July 28, 2004 3:42 pm)

Initial posting. Big Ideas--Who Needs Them?
- Wynne Delacoma (July 28, 2004 3:22 pm)

Brahms and Wagner
- John Rockwell (July 28, 2004 1:34 pm)

READER: Ideas From Critics?
- Jan Herman (July 28, 2004 1:14 pm)

READER: Where's Music's Toni Morrison?
- Gary Panetta (July 28, 2004 1:11 pm)

To John Rockwell: Styles, Not Politics
- Alex Ross (July 28, 2004 8:20 am)

The Idea and its Conditions
- Kyle Gann (July 28, 2004 7:49 am)

Question for Kyle
- John Rockwell (July 28, 2004 7:20 am)

The Next Medium-Sized Idea
- Kyle Gann (July 28, 2004 6:39 am)

Apology & comment
- Justin Davidson (July 28, 2004 5:29 am)

To Alex and Justin; the pedant at work
- John Rockwell (July 28, 2004 3:45 am)

Listening for Passionate Engagement
- Alex Ross (July 28, 2004 2:41 am)

READER: Where Are The Women?
- Virginie Foucault (July 27, 2004 6:50 pm)

Jotting I: We do have a Big Idea
- Charles Ward (July 27, 2004 4:48 pm)

How big is a big idea?
- Justin Davidson (July 27, 2004 4:37 pm)

Initial entry
- John Rockwell (July 27, 2004 4:31 pm)

A blurry patchwork
- Scott Cantrell (July 27, 2004 3:42 pm)

Alternate Universe
- Kyle Gann (July 27, 2004 2:59 pm)

Taking Issue With The Question
- Andrew Druckenbrod (July 27, 2004 2:53 pm)