[NewMusic] And Scott Johnson's reply

[Matt J. Ingalls]

yea, holland has had a number of embarassingly ignorant articles lately -- 
the 
review of that 
concert at the kitchen by jane rigler et al playing cardew, brown, and 
wolff comes to mind -- he even mentioned it again in his end-of-2007 
article:

"Here was a program of 1960s arrogance and self-absorption, with people 
like Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff and Earle Brown as the main 
offenders. Listening to a collection of composers sharing inside jokes and 
private messages in music that reeked of contempt for the public made me 
get down on my knees and give thanks that an era so damaging to music was 
over. It didn't drive an intelligent public away from classical music by 
itself, but it helped."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/arts/music/23holl.html



On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, grobair at emusician.com wrote:

> As is:
>
> http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=5382
>
> [Scott's bio includes a gem about " playing an early role in the trend
> towards incorporating rock influences into traditionally scored
> compositions. " An early role in a trend! Historians, pay attention...]
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