Comment on Helpless Individuals

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:58:22 GMT

Now, whether you would want to bother following a path to appreciation of contemporary music will depend quite simply on how much enjoyment you think you can get out of music in the first place.

Quite simply seems simply mistaken, even if you are mentioning one important factor.

If someone ended up as a advanced composer because they really liked Beethoven etc. when they were young, and subsequently followed their nose, up through Schoenberg, until they finally became Milton Babbitt, that should suggest that something may be going on other than a cynical pursuit of status.

Yes, the pursuit of status without cynicism.

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