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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
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Subject: Re: composition is dead?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 22:29:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jun27.161828.17195@agate.berkeley.edu> maverick@mahogany.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick) writes:
;In article <11273@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot
;Handelman) writes:

;|> And last of all "composition" is dead,
;|> significant music is not made that way anymore.


;How do you know I can't make "significant" music by composing?  

"Composing" is too limited, not general enough. That's why it
pays so little. That's why in turn it does not attract "the best minds 
of my generation" (ginsburg). No critical base.