What about Cheltenham eh?

[MrGongGong]

We could have
"music for people who have read Adorno" ?

[Bryn]

The extent of my readin of Adorno is on a par with Peter Sellers's singing of George Gershwin.

[french frank]

The extent of my readin of Adorno is on a par with Peter Sellers's singing of George Gershwin.

We could start here, Bryn - or is this on a par with Sellers/Gershwin?

[Bryn]

Peter Sellers sings George Gershwin.

[french frank]

Well that was quite painless

[Bryn]

Othewise I never bothered to venture beyond the Verso "Aesthetics and Politics". It just seemed so much more interesting to listen to music, even his string quartet works (Op. 2 Pieces, the String Quartet, and the 6 Studies).

[3rd Viennese School]

Come to think of it, Hear and Now sometimes has a whole programme of more commercial type music, so my answer may not be entirely correct.

Contemporary actually means stuff people have written at round about the same time. (You lot knew that!)

There is no one correct answer. As they say about Sibelius Symphonies.

3VS

[Ian]

We could have
"music for people who have read Adorno" ?

Or perhaps "music for people who think Adorno has got something useful to say"

[MrGongGong]

though its a long time since I did read Adorno
I do remember that he (along with Dahlhaus and Benjamin) had much to say
though "useful" is an odd way of judging the value of aesthetics

[Ian]

though its a long time since I did read Adorno
I do remember that he (along with Dahlhaus and Benjamin) had much to say
though "useful" is an odd way of judging the value of aesthetics

No judgement offered.

[Cellini]

Would you call, for example, James MacMillan a composer of new music?

I have got my coat ready.

I wouldn't call him a composer of ANY music ...

[Cellini]

Ian, I usued to live in Penarth!! Lovely place.

[Cellini]

All this navel gazing when after all it is all just music. Doesn't matter if its new, old, or in between. It's either good or bad.

[Ian]

It's either good or bad.

Why would anyone write bad music?

[ahinton]

Why would anyone write bad music?

Who knows? - but someone with whom I studied briefly some years ago told me that Milhaud (with whom he had himself studied) once told him that one mark of a good composer is the abilty to write bad music really well; make what you can (or can't) of that, if you will (or won't)...