Selling "modern" music

[Nick Armstrong]

This is one of the funniest things I've seen recently:

[Richard Barrett]

Now THIS is the kind of craven and stultifying commercialism I meant, Mr Feingold!!!!! Where's your "nonsense" now???????

[french frank]

I think my reaction was more: "Who? Why?"

But probably best not answered ...

[ahinton]

Thanks for this, Cali; hadn't seen it in years! Perhaps the best commercialsm in it is the closing ad for the website of the excellent Schönberg Center in Vienna although, as that did not exist at the time the commercial was made (1977), I wonder if that bit's been popped on the end subsequently...

[Nick Armstrong]

Now THIS is the kind of craven and stultifying commercialism I meant, Mr Feingold!!!!! Where's your "nonsense" now???????

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's the deadpan "the greatest composers since Joachim Raff" that does it for me

[Pabmusic]

It's the deadpan "the greatest composers since Joachim Raff" that does it for me

You mean it's meant as a joke?

[Nick Armstrong]

It's the deadpan "the greatest composers since Joachim Raff" that does it for me

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You mean it's meant as a joke?

[verismissimo]

This is one of the funniest things I've seen recently:

It's a work of art in itself, Cali. Always a winner (perhaps especially for those of us who love Arnie and Co).

[richardfinegold]

Now THIS is the kind of craven and stultifying commercialism I meant, Mr Feingold!!!!! Where's your "nonsense" now???????

It's Finegold.

[Nick Armstrong]

I think he was pulling your leg, Richard...!

[Richard Barrett]

It's Finegold.

See how annoying it is when people misspell your name?

(and yes, of course Caliban is right, I wasn't being serious in that post!)

[vinteuil]

This is one of the funniest things I've seen recently:

... lovely; many thanks.

Of course, to be pedantic, most of the works featured are not 12-tone at all...

[Lento]

Just ordered my copy