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Thursday, May 22, 2008
what are the questions?
from ben boretz
...am I wrong to think that it’s the traditional intellectual role of composers to raise the really far-reaching, radically searching questions about music? If I’m not wrong then I’d ask: what count as questions like that for music now, for composers now? I’m still trying to ask questions like that, but mine are naturally continuous extensions from an earlier time; for someone who came into the world as a composer within the last 25-30 years the issue of what core of musical convention is essential to expose and penetrate and renew probably has to look radically different – and that’s what Perspectives wants and needs to know about and to represent.
...am I wrong to think that it’s the traditional intellectual role of composers to raise the really far-reaching, radically searching questions about music? If I’m not wrong then I’d ask: what count as questions like that for music now, for composers now? I’m still trying to ask questions like that, but mine are naturally continuous extensions from an earlier time; for someone who came into the world as a composer within the last 25-30 years the issue of what core of musical convention is essential to expose and penetrate and renew probably has to look radically different – and that’s what Perspectives wants and needs to know about and to represent.
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