[NewMusic] I see a baboon's ass

[Michael Henry]

After suffering through many of Kyle Gann's feeble-minded musings for years while I was living in Chicago (he was "critic" for the Reader where he bored us ad infinitum before moving on to NY), I have to say....this one takes the cake. 

If there is a is a correspondence between neocons (aka fascists) and music, I'd look to someone like Gann himself who's been carping on this uptown vs. downtown thing for so long I sometimes wish I could get a frontal lobotomy, in order to alleviate my suffering. Or better yet, he could get one.

I'll take Schoenberg's music (which no matter how many times I listen to, I can always find something new to amaze me) to Gann's insipid, uninspired, boring old baloney any day. Or night. 

Please, someone make him go away.

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:15:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Duff <td at pixar.com>
Subject: [NewMusic] I see Serious People
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Kyle Gann spots a correspondence between Neocons and Serialists:
http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/07/color_me_frivolous.html

-- 
Tom Duff.  To find out a person's userid, ask him.


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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:40:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Matt J. Ingalls" <ingalls at mills.edu>
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] I see Serious People
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man, babyboomer-composers really are holding onto that grudge 
against 12-tone music.. it must have been really bad back in the day..

if gann's analogy and predictions are right, i guess we will be feeling 
the same about the neocons 20 years from now..

-m