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Re: [VT] Two Instruments (1958)
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Charles Allen
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Oct 29, 2009 14:14 PST
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Glenn's comment below naturally reminded me of:
What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment‹-maybe, say,
six weeks‹-nobody understood art. That¹s why it all happened.
‹Morton Feldman
On 10/29/09 2:08 PM, "gle-@ogreogress.com" <gle-@ogreogress.com> wrote:
| | yes, this is what interests me as well ... not lineage, but the fact so
many composers started producing such revolutionary sounding pieces in
1958 ... even works by copland, stravinsky, shostakovich, etc. from this
year ...
Daniel Wolf wrote:
| | but the interesting question is not one of priority or of lines of
direct influence but rather why there appears to have been a common
need,
in that musical moment, to work from such a particular set of
constraints
and extensions?
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