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- From: fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields)
- Subject: Re: academia, power, priveledge...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.191908.17039@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
- References: <0105009A.mata17@david.roth-music.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:19:08 GMT
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- In article <0105009A.mata17@david.roth-music.com> david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec28.134620.16506@zip.eecs.umich.edu> (rec.music.compose), fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields) writes:
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- >> Secondly, when I listed what I think a professor of composition should be
- >> doing regularly, I intended to be inclusive of all truly compositional
- >> activities, but not to include administrative work, computer support for
- >> other composers, abstract research with no work of entertainment as its
- >> end goal, or political maneuvering.
- >
- >In other words, waste resources while the University foots the bill
- >creating music theory works called composition to be played by a captive
- >audience of students who have payed dearly to attention a place of
- >higher learning.
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- So this is what Leslie Basset's premeires by the Detroit Symphony, or
- Bill Bolcolm's recent 9 sold-out premeire performances by the Lyric
- Opera of Chicago are all about. Thanks for telling me. I could have sworn
- that the university wasn't paying for these, and that the audiences
- weren't captive audiences of students but a mixture of season subscribers
- and ticketholders. I could have sworn they went because the folks had
- reputations for being entertaining. But you obviously know better.
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