Hear and Now - 26th November 2011 - British Composer Awards, Skempton's Lento

[austin]

Here are the winners......

http://tinyurl.com/69fqstu

[Trudge]

As to instances of "hoodwinking" we have the example from the early 1960s of two serious music critics (not composers, true, but in the case of one a renowned author and broadcaster on contemporary composition) messing about in a BBC studio with percussion and electronics, and the resulting piece being passed off as by one Piotr Zotik, iirc, and judged as a serious piece of experimental music by the reviewers.

Sorry to jump back a few posts, but I've actually read those reviews (and most/all of the other published material relating to the issue in question). Yes, the reviewers* did judge it as though it were a serious piece of music, but that's because Keller and Bradshaw presented it as such. Why would they think it was anything else? Who on earth listens to the radio assuming everything they hear could be a hoax?

But – and this is absolutely to the point – none of them thought it worth a candle as a piece of music. They may have reviewed it seriously, but they all thought it was crap. And said so in print. So the idea that you could fake this stuff was completely holed below the water. Quite the opposite of Keller's intention, I'm sure, even if the legend tells it differently these days.

*NB This was a time when several national publications would carry reviews of a short item broadcast on R3. Wow.

[Serial_Apologist]

So the idea that you could fake this stuff was completely holed below the water.

Exactly. Welcome to the board, Trudge.