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From: hrs@houxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: re: Modern Music
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Date: Thu, 31-May-84 08:07:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 31 08:07:19 1984
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Bob Fishell's remark comparing Berg's music to breaking
light bulbs rather than lyric(al) violin shown his
total lack of acquintance with Berg's music.
Berg's violin concertoisvery lyrical, and Wozzeck and Lulu,
his opera's are powerfully romantic works.
There is large variety of modern music, not all of which
is completely a-traitional.
Modern music should not be composed in the idiom of past
centuries. None of the other art forms are, we don't all
live in gothic or colonial buildings, nor do painters
paint in renaissance style.
People are not exposed to enough modern (or contemporary)
music to become acquainted with it enough to make
judgments whether it is good or bad. Similarly, very
few people understand the emotional impact of J.S. Bach's
works on first hearing.
If you want to restrict your musical environment,
continue not to listen to modern music. If you want
to widen your horizons, listen to a variety of
modern music until the language becomes familiar.
Then it will cease to seem "modern", and it will
just be another variety of music.

Herman Silbiger CGE