Jazz drummer As an underpinning for this institution of “GRUPPEN” concerts, the principle responsibility of Jazz drummer Max Roach’s remark on music education and rap — “People who voted for defunding of music education programs in public schools are getting what they paid for” — drew comments. One reader wrote that the poet John Ashbery said somewhere: “The only thing worse than rap is French rap.” Anybody know where? Another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbvgEs-bad_rap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“People who voted for defunding of music education programs in public schools are getting what
\nthey paid for” — drew comments. One reader wrote that the poet John Ashbery said somewhere:
\n“The only thing worse than rap is French rap.” Anybody know where? Another reader, the
\ncomposer Charles Mac Dermed, wrote:<\/P>
\nWere it my prerogative, I’d see to it that “GRUPPEN” by Karl-Heinz
\nStockhausen, a 21 min. symphonic piece for 3 full orchestras + supplementary percussion, was
\ndaily performed at noon in Union Square, S.F., during which performance streets surrounding
\nUnion Square would be barricaded against vehicular traffic and bicyclists could circle while the
\nspatially distributed instrumentalists play.
\n
\nthe Bay Area schools would be to train musicians for this everyday occurrence. Sooner or later
\nthe mind of S.F. citizenry would be enlightened by exposure to this phenomenon. I can attest to
\nthe enlightening efficacy of this monumental work by Stockhausen. For me it is the supernal
\nculmination of human culture.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"