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- From: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.compose
- Subject: Re: academia, power, priveledge...
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 01:30:45 EST
- Organization: DAVID A. ROTH MUSIC
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- Reply-To: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
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- In article <1992Dec26.173521.4709@zip.eecs.umich.edu> (rec.music.compose), fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >
- I don't think anybody should be teaching composition period because
- it can't be taught to begin with, imho.
-
- David
- david@roth-music.com
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