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Critical Conversation
Classical Music Critics on the Future of Music
Reader Comments
The Purpose of Music
- Linda Rogers (08/06/2004 10:46 am)
Thank you to all
- Jennifer Higdon (08/06/2004 10:10 am)
To Corey Dargel and Kyle Gann
- Garth Trinkl (08/06/2004 10:00 am)
re: Where Are The Young Voices?
- Andrea La Rose (08/06/2004 9:21 am)
To Justin: Art can be entertaining, but it is notentertainment
- Arthur J. Sabatini (08/06/2004 8:42 am)
Where Are The Young Voices?
- Corey Dargel (08/06/2004 8:20 am)
Summing Up
- Brian Newhouse (08/05/2004 9:26 pm)
Classical Music Doesn't Fit The PR Mold
- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (08/05/2004 9:18 pm)
Eclecticism Is Better Anyway
- Hale Jacob (08/05/2004 7:40 pm)
What Is Live Performance, Anyway?
- Steve Layton (08/05/2004 7:34 pm)
Some Simple Gratitude
- Mark Stryker (08/05/2004 4:06 pm)
But What of the Squeakfartists?
- John Shaw (08/05/2004 2:42 pm)
Who Said Anything About Pop Musicians?
- Garth Trinkl (08/05/2004 11:43 am)
Gann's Got It Right
- Jan Herman (08/05/2004 8:33 am)
Big Ideas? How About Melody?
- John N. McBaine (08/05/2004 7:20 am)
so what's the big idea?
- John Shaw (08/04/2004 4:28 pm)
Point of Clarification
- Marc Geelhoed (08/04/2004 2:41 pm)
A Little of This, A Little of That
- B. Fleming (08/04/2004 2:20 pm)
Paging Arthur Sabatini...
- Gary Panetti (08/04/2004 2:18 pm)
Lists, Categories, & Big Ideas Miss The Point
- Joan La Barbara (08/04/2004 2:09 pm)
Education & Audience Engagement
- John Shaw (08/04/2004 1:59 pm)
A Matter of Education
- Beata Moon (08/04/2004 8:41 am)
Back to Big Ideas
- Garth Trinkl (08/04/2004 8:31 am)
Another Composer's Viewpoint
- Beata Moon (08/04/2004 6:37 am)
Insulted Concert-goers
- Marc Geelhoed (08/03/2004 11:14 pm)
Critical Civility
- AC Douglas (08/03/2004 7:11 pm)
apologies
- John Shaw (08/03/2004 7:10 pm)
Mr. Context
- Arthur J. Sabatini (08/03/2004 7:09 pm)
All American Music
- John Shaw (08/03/2004 2:40 pm)
"Big Ideas" - Which Direction?
- Steve Layton (08/03/2004 2:28 pm)
Seeking: Multiple Judgments
- Garth Trinkl (08/03/2004 2:26 pm)
John Rockwell on Gann and Ross, and Greg, too
- Arthur J. Sabatini (08/03/2004 10:08 am)
Glad to be that somebody
- David Carter (08/03/2004 7:14 am)
Big Idea? Not
- Nicholas Kenyon (08/03/2004 7:11 am)
Big Ideas... Who Needs Them?
- James Weaver (08/02/2004 11:26 pm)
To Greg, Justin: Hermetic Music
- Tom Hamilton (08/02/2004 7:30 pm)
A Problem of Marketing
- Corey Dargel (08/02/2004 5:59 pm)
Of Sheep Heads And Music
- P. Bailey (08/02/2004 5:56 pm)
Re: Kyle's Listening Examples
- Steve Layton (08/02/2004 9:51 am)
Marketing anyone?
- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (08/02/2004 9:26 am)
A Post-Literate Musical Future
- John Halle (08/02/2004 9:12 am)
Where do new musical ideas come from?... Follow the architecture
- Garth Trinkl (08/01/2004 2:19 pm)
How Do Ideas Get Big?
- Arthur J. Sabatini (08/01/2004 2:14 pm)
The Next Big Idea
- John Heins (08/01/2004 2:11 pm)
Of Social Complexity And Other "High" Arts
- John Shaw (08/01/2004 8:39 am)
Two Important Threads
- Jonathan Gresl (07/31/2004 5:57 pm)
Why Is It "Classical"?
- Sophia Loke (07/31/2004 5:56 pm)
A Still More Disturbing Question
- Brian Newhouse (07/30/2004 7:25 pm)
Wow!
- Jan Herman (07/30/2004 11:24 am)
Quit Complaining, Start Writing
- Marc Geelhoed (07/30/2004 10:59 am)
Defending Kyle
- John Shaw (07/30/2004 10:54 am)
Un-Self-Consciousness In Seattle
- Gavin Borchert (07/30/2004 10:51 am)
Kyle, I Hear You!
- John Shaw (07/30/2004 9:23 am)
Money Vs. "Music that Matters"
- Richard Einhorn (07/30/2004 7:49 am)
Critics - Flogging For Novelty?
- Joanne Forman (07/30/2004 7:45 am)
Jazz - MIA?
- George Hunka (07/30/2004 7:25 am)
Pop is not off topic
- John Shaw (07/30/2004 12:29 am)
Time Is Not Of The Essence
- Tom Myron (07/30/2004 12:13 am)
Not one line in the sand
- Molly Sheridan (07/29/2004 3:02 pm)
Waiting for Godot
- Colin Eatock (07/29/2004 1:48 pm)
No More Historical Progress
- Richard Einhorn (07/29/2004 1:44 pm)
Re: Pop Innovation (Alex Ross)
- Jeff H. (07/29/2004 1:24 pm)
A Musicologist Crashes The Party!
- Robert Fink (07/29/2004 11:19 am)
Classicaly Not Pop
- AC Douglas (07/29/2004 10:49 am)
If Wishes Were Ideas...
- John Harris (07/29/2004 7:11 am)
Is Hip-hop The Big Idea?
- Tim Rutherford-Johnson (07/29/2004 7:07 am)
What Do The Critics Want?
- John Shaw (07/28/2004 7:03 pm)
Ideas From Critics?
- Jan Herman (07/28/2004 1:14 pm)
Where's Music's Toni Morrison?
- Gary Panetta (07/28/2004 1:11 pm)
Where Are The Women?
- Virginie Foucault (07/27/2004 6:50 pm)
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There was a time when great cities had multiple newspapers and culture was hashed out daily in the press, strongly-held opinions battling for the hearts and minds of readers. Today it's rare for a city to have more than one or two outlets where culture can be publicly discussed, let alone prodded and pulled and challenged...
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THE QUESTION BEFORE US
If the history of music is the recorded conversation of ideas, then where do we find ourselves in that conversation at the start of the 21st Century? In the past, musical ideas have been fought over, affirmed then challenged again, with each generation adding something new. Ultimately consensus was achieved around an idea, and that idea gained traction with a critical mass of composers.
Now we are in a period when no particular musical idea seems to represent our age, and it appears that for the moment – at least on the surface – that there is no obvious direction music is going. So the question is: what is the next chapter in the historical conversation of musical ideas, and where are the seeds of those ideas planted?
Or: Is it possible that, with traditional cultural structures fragmenting, and the ways people are getting and using culture fundamentally changing, that it is no longer possible for a unifying style to emerge? Is it still possible for a Big Idea to attain the kind of traction needed to energize and acquire a critical mass of composers and performers?
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READER: The purpose of music
- Linda Rogers (08/06/2004 10:46 am)
READER: Thank you to all
- Jennifer Higdon (08/06/2004 10:10 am)
READER: To Corey Dargel and Kyle Gann
- Garth Trinkl (08/06/2004 9:21 am)
READER: re:Where Are The Young Voices?
- Andrea La Rose (08/06/2004 9:21 am)
READER: To Justin: Art can be entertaining, but it is not entertainment
- Arthur J. Sabatini (08/06/2004 8:42 am)
Final Disinformation
- Kyle Gann (08/06/2004 8:41 am)
READER: Where Are The Young Voices?
- Corey Dargel (08/06/2004 8:21 am)
Over and out - an anti-rant rant
- Justin Davidson (08/06/2004 7:05 am)
READER: Classical Music Doesn't Fit The PR Mold
- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (08/05/2004 9:21 pm)
READER: Eclecticism Is Better Anyway
- Hale Jacob (08/05/2004 7:41 pm)
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Greg Sandow
The Wall Street Journal
- To Justin: Hermetic
Music
- Performance ideas
- Truly big classical
ideas
- Another view
Wynne Delacoma
Chicago Sun-Times
- Composer bashing, female
critics, form and content
- Big Ideas--Who Needs Them?
Alex Ross
The New Yorker
- Clarification, Departure
- The New New Thing
- Provocation!
- To AC Douglas
- Pop Innovation
- A Potential Goldmine
- To Rockwell: Styles, Not
Politics
- Listening for Passionate
Engagement
Kyle Gann
Village Voice
- Listening examples provided
- Queries for John Rockwell
- Unfair on my part
- Composer bashing
- Inside a big idea
- Names & Their Inadequacies
- The Idea & Its Conditions
- The Next Medium-Sized Idea
- Alternate Universe
Justin Davidson
Newsday
- Thanks, Kyle
- proposal
- To Kyle
- Who's saying give up?
- Some Things Are New, Actually
- High/Low Redux
- pop envy
- Where was THAT in Classical
Music?
- Apology & Comment
- How Big is a Big Idea?
John Rockwell
The New York Times
- Reply to Kyle and a Plea
- Arghhh, or however you
spell it
- The Magpie
- Brahms and Wagner
- Question for Kyle
- To Alex, Justin: the pedant
at work
- Initial Entry
Scott Cantrell
Dallas Morning News
- What's success?
- Pop music precendent
- Multiculturalism
- Fragmentation
- Female Critics
- Movements & Media
- A Blurry Patchwork
Charles Ward
Houston Chronicle
- Jotting IV: Grab Bag
- Jotting III: When John
Rockwell...
- Jotting II: I'd Rather Not Get
A Call From Stalin
- Jotting I: We Do Have A Big
Idea
Anne Midgette
The New York Times
- What's the big idea?
- A Few Responses To
Other Postings
- Back to Fragmentation
for a Minute
- Gender footnote
- Another preamble
Andrew Druckenbrod
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Composers are Composers
but Distinctions are
Worthwhile
- No apology to pop and
film
- Taking Issue With The
Question
John von Rhein
Chicago Tribune
Kyle MacMillan
Denver Post
Joshua Kosman
San Francisco Chronicle
| | | | FROM READERS |
The Purpose of Music
- Linda Rogers (08/06/2004 10:46 am)
Thank you to all
- Jennifer Higdon (08/06/2004 10:10 am)
To Corey Dargel and Kyle Gann
- Garth Trinkl (08/06/2004 10:00 am)
re: Where Are The Young Voices?
- Andrea La Rose (08/06/2004 9:21 am)
To Justin: Art can be entertaining, but it is notentertainment
- Arthur J. Sabatini (08/06/2004 8:42 am)
Where Are The Young Voices?
- Corey Dargel (08/06/2004 8:20 am)
Summing Up
- Brian Newhouse (08/05/2004 9:26 pm)
Classical Music Doesn't Fit The PR Mold
- Dennis Bathory-Kitsz (08/05/2004 9:18 pm)
Eclecticism Is Better Anyway
- Hale Jacob (08/05/2004 7:40 pm)
What Is Live Performance, Anyway?
- Steve Layton (08/05/2004 7:34 pm)
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