[NewMusic] Ribot rant and subsidized spaces in Europe

[Phillip Greenlief]

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On Behalf Of Michael Zelner
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Ribot rant and subsidized spaces in Europe

Take my mother (please). She considers herself well-informed on modern
American culture (as a daily reader of the NY Times and frequent viewer
of PBS, doncha know). Yet when I tell her about some concert or other
that I've seen around here, many times she hasn't heard of the artist
and will ask, "Is he famous? Should I have heard of him?" She read the
article about Cecil Taylor at Jazz At Lincoln Center (sic) and knew who
Wynton Marsalis was (because he's "famous") but not Cecil Taylor.

MZ
 
PG:
As opposed to my mom, who never thought of herself as cultured, but
whenever I told her I was going to go out and hear some music, she would
say: "Can I go too?"