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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Modern Classical Music
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Date: Wed, 30-May-84 17:48:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 17:48:49 1984
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I don't know if you can lump all the music written in the 20th century
together into one category and call it "modern."  How do you compare
Debussy with Berg or Mahler with Stravinsky?  You don't.  The 20th
century is a point of departure for serious music, and it seems to have
taken on myriad different forms, ranging from the sublime to the
ridiculous.  There is some lovely music that has been written since 1900,
and it's a shame to lump it in with crap like "Wozzeck," which seems to
have been written just to alienate people.

I suppose that I've just offended a few Alban Berg fans and forever
branded myself an artless lowbrow, but I know I'm not alone.  I'll
take a lyric violin over breaking light bulbs any day.
-- 

                               Bob Fishell
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