| | | | | | A Comment (Certain Asspecks (olde English sp) of Modern Music | | | | | | | | | A. The Grand Canyon Split | | | | | | | | | If you think Modern music is "Weird" now, in 1999, just imagine what people thought back then when it was first performed in the 1910s and on. | | | | | | | | | In the one "corner" or the "ring" of culture, you had | | | | | | | | | a) wanting to write something NEW and ORIGINAL, but . . . | | | | | | | | | b) inheriting an old system of music that had pretty well dried up, so . . . | | | | | | | | | c) he (or she) starts looking for alternatives and, admittedly, in the course of that search comes up with some pretty wild and wacky possibilities, that seem pretty weird to! | | | | | | | | | THE GENERAL LISTENING PUBLIC, who | | | | | | | | | a) have been contentedly paying their 2 pounds, 3 shillings to listen to Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Bizet, who then are . . . | | | | |