Rolf Hind, Joanna MacGregor, Thomas Larcher. (And, from the previous generation, Ronald Stevenson, Robert Sherlaw Johnson and John McCabe.)
Berlioz?
Or, possibly, at the same time as playwrights ceased being actors? (Even fewer actor/writers than pianist/composers? Pinter, Tarentino, Bennett ... ) "Why"? Because long before Babbitt penned "The Composer as Specialist", journalists and concert managers (and, as a result, audiences) had decided that they wanted performers to perform and composers to compose: they couldn't possibly be good at both.
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Or, possibly, at the same time as playwrights ceased being actors? (Even fewer actor/writers than pianist/composers? Pinter, Tarentino, Bennett ... ) "Why"? Because long before Babbitt penned "The Composer as Specialist", journalists and concert managers (and, as a result, audiences) had decided that they wanted performers to perform and composers to compose: they couldn't possibly be good at both.
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