tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post360891666657172178..comments2024-03-29T07:38:17.008-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: The Bernie Sanders of American Classical Music?Bryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-34309719256384727262016-05-12T08:30:28.460-05:002016-05-12T08:30:28.460-05:00Perhaps John Cage was the Trump of composers. He w...Perhaps John Cage was the Trump of composers. He was certainly transgressive.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-69737740620182059752016-05-10T12:54:26.228-05:002016-05-10T12:54:26.228-05:00Spotify sends out a playlist each Monday morning, ...Spotify sends out a playlist each Monday morning, presumably based on some calculations derived from my/other 'classical' listeners' choices, and Rzewski's <i>Les moutons de Panurge</i> showed up yesterday. It too was actually interesting enough, from 1968, although it was on only in the background. The <i>People United in Defeat Variations</i> or whatever it's called was pretty much enough to put him into the dark recesses of the back closet where I keep the Iron Butterfly but I suspect that was too hasty a judgment. <br /><br />The Trumpian composer! what a thought. A composer who appeals to a certain audience but has managed none the less to bankrupt several opera houses? music halls? while attracting unrelenting media attention for his many transgressive behaviors/attitudes. There's bound to be an analogue somewhere; a P.T. Barnum of song. Pft; Rabelais is peculiarly appropriate to our times, I sometimes think: but wasn't familiar enough with the books to have known the <i>moutons</i> story-- which phrase in French (Wiki) has come to refer to people willing blindly to follow a leader, ahem.Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.com