Pliable points to a review by Michael Kimmelman in the New York Review of Books of Stephen Walsh's Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971. Pliable notes the end of Mr. Kimmelman's review:
The composer George Perle observed when Stravinsky died that the world was without a great composer for the first time in six hundred years. It still is.
I respectfully dissent, for that time and for our own. It is not necessary to diminish the present in order to uphold and love the past. It flourishes on its own.
I realize I ought to read the article, but it makes me so angry that this young man can get recorded because of his age when established composers can't count on getting their work recorded.
ReplyDeleteAnyone can get their music recorded.
ReplyDeleteHow good the performance is, will be another story.