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- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Subject: Re: academia, power, priveledge...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.173521.4709@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <1992Dec23.202529.29725@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <gXecwB1w165w@dorsai.com> <1992Dec25.190909.25191@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:35:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.190909.25191@zip.eecs.umich.edu> I write:
- >In article <gXecwB1w165w@dorsai.com> idealord@dorsai.com (Jeff Harrington) writes:
- >> Bach and Mozart wrote music which was judged by
- >>intelligent, cultured music lovers. I'm sorry, this ain't the case no
- >>more.
- >
- >Intelligent, cultured music lovers don't grow on trees! Hence modern
- >academia.
-
- But I've oversimplified and failed to explain why I love to teach
- composition. This cuts right to the heart of the joy of teaching.
- You hand out seeds of ideas that you don't even have to make up
- because your own teachers handed them to you, and each student finds a
- niche for that seed in her or his own fertile mind---and week in, week
- out, you get to see instantiations of ideas blossoming back at you in
- ways you couldn't ever have imagined. This is fun.
-
- But nobody should be teaching composition who doesn't complete at least
- one new symphony or 3 new sonatas and quartets or one scene of an opera
- fully orchestrated per year, consistently, imho.
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