Music as Art

As the place for art music diminishes in our lives, so does its importance and its ability to enhance and enrich.  Newspaper "Arts" sections are replaced by "Entertainment" sections; classical music never makes the Evening News, unless perhaps somebody is stabbed at a concert; and not one person in a hundred can name a living American composer under 50.

That there are numerous gifted and interesting composers under 50 (under 30, too) and why they persist against all odds in offering their sonic expressions to an unwilling, uninterested and uneducated public is the theme of this blog.

Perhaps if we would listen often to interesting and even challenging musics, we could begin to hear.  We'll see.

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