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- From: idealord@dorsai.com (Jeff Harrington)
- Subject: Re: academia, power, priveledge...
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- Sender: idealord@dorsai.com (Jeff Harrington)
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- References: <1992Dec29.191908.17039@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:37:18 GMT
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- fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields) writes:
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- > In article <0105009A.mata17@david.roth-music.com> david@roth-music.com (David
- > >
- > >In article <1992Dec28.134620.16506@zip.eecs.umich.edu> (rec.music.compose),
- > >>
- > >>
- > >> 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- >
- >
-
- Come on Matt! You know that these schools are just papering the halls.
- The entire custodial staff of Bolcom's alma mater were _required_ to go
- to his concert! ;-)
-
- Really, that guy just won't leave town (NY) here either!
-
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- Jeff Harrington
- IdEAL ORDER
- idealord@dorsai.com
-