Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site flairvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!flairvax!kissell From: kissell@flairvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Modern Classical Music Message-ID: <537@flairvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 18:37:07 EDT Article-I.D.: flairvax.537 Posted: Fri Jun 1 18:37:07 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 19:38:12 EDT References: <386@ihu1g.UUCP>, <50@mouton.UUCP> Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 17 (tap tap) One underestimated reason for the dearth of "good" "modern" "classical" music is that many, if not most individuals with instrumental and compositional talent have chosen to work in jazz and other idioms, where they can find audiences. This leaves "classical" composition mainly in the hands of academics, reactionaries, and experimentalists. Kevin D. Kissell Fairchild Research Center Advanced Processor Development uucp: {ihnp4 decvax}!decwrl!\ >flairvax!kissell {ucbvax sdcrdcf}!hplabs!/ "Any closing epigram, regardless of truth or wit, grows galling after a number of repetitions"