Hi- Interesting discussion. There is no way everybody is going to agree on this subject so that is why I decided years ago not to talk about my personal style so much anymore, unless asked.... but just do it. I've always smiled at how curiously parallel it is that ET became perfected and established at precisely the same time that tonality was breaking down and atonal ideas came to life. It was a whole new era and the Sciences were really taking off. There would be fertile study for the right graduate student to try and relate the democracy of atonality with the inhumanity associated with much of that music. One of my little secrets is that a long time ago we had a last minute guest artist who came with an entire concert of Roger Sessions. I already had the piano ready in my usual Victorian/Young style. Of course everything went marvellously well. The significance of a thing is not necessarily diminished by the number of people who understand and appreciate it. carry on, Dennis Johnson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090118/b59cc97d/attachment-0001.html>
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