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- From: idealord@dorsai.com (Jeff Harrington)
- Subject: Re: Carping and Per Diem
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- References: <1992Dec28.193503.15082@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:20:36 GMT
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- fullerto@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (timothy dwight fullerton) writes:
-
- >
- >
- > I am finding the threads about bashing academia really kind of
- > disgusting and immature. I look at it this way: Everyone is making their
- > own contributions to art. "Academics," whatever that means, are making
- > theirs; people who sit in their room with a sequencer and/or a four
- > track and recreate are making theirs; Pop musicians are making theirs.
-
-
- I find this a bit naive. Pop musicians are interested in becoming
- "popular" and in making "money." Come on, get real! Composers who
- create music which is intended to please their mentors or who are trying
- to impress a tenure committee are just as phony.
-
- >
- > In my grad school shopping, I have expressed the fear that
- > studying composition could ruin me, that I could become this
- > intellectual that creates aural math projects that nobody wants to
- > listen to. Keeping the above arguments in mind, that is prejudiced and
- > ridiculous. If I don't want that, I won't get that. If I research my
- > grad schools well, I'll find someplace enriching where I will happy and
- > free, and there will not be a corrupt machine that will try to squeeze
- > me into that mold. If I research poorly, I deserve what I get.
-
- Hey, if you're writing music which is too intellectual - it's your fault,
- not your schools. The best part about grad school are the readings and
- performances - if you're lucky to get a good teacher you may get good
- commentary or analysis.
-
- >
- > Basically my message is if you don't like academic music (again,
- > whatever that means), don't go to school, but don't take a militant,
- > self righteous stance against academia. What purpose does that serve?
-
- Give me a break. The reason that the public doesn't go to contemporary
- concerts (remember the riots at the Rite of Spring premiere, everyone
- used to go that was a classical music lover) is because they've been
- scared away by music which was written in the name of "progress." This
- is not a immature opinion - it's a fact. You should check out the
- anti-new music postings in rec.music.classical for a taste of how our
- culture's support for the university patronage system has _destroyed_
- interest in new music - except, of course, new music which is really rock
- music.
- >
- > Happy Holidays;
- >
- > Tim.
-
- Cheers and good will to all!
-
- Oh, btw, you should ask Matt Fields about UM in Ann Arbor, I don't think
- there's a better graduate composition department better anywhere...
-
-
- Jeff Harrington
- IdEAL ORDER
- idealord@dorsai.com
-