[NewMusic] (no subject)

[David Slusser]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Ava Mendoza wrote:
> most of the people i encounter who dislike
> experimental/improvised/new/weird music give something along the lines
> of "it's too intellectual" or "it doesn't have any heart" as their
> argument against it. which mystifies me. i think people do like to
> think of themselves as emotional or intuitive, but they mainly like a
> sort of very concrete or identifiable emotion--Happy, Sad etc--whereas
> more abstract or nebulous emotion is the thing that's frightening.

I love the frightening.

somewhat related - though I know NPR is a
little buttoned-downed for the list, tune in
KQED or KALW for rebroadcast of a serious
music piece they just did on Schoenburg
and those he influenced.  Not sure I agree
with the author's conclusion, but you do
get to hear a bit of the music on mainstream
radio.