A bit, actually. Yeah, I know it's just old fogeyism, but nothing leaps out to me any longer. Even the music I know and love best, jazz, no longer seems to have anything new to offer that is an absolute "must listen." I'll admit that this probably says more about me than the current state of the art.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 14, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Mark Bennett wrote:
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> > All music seems to have hit a dead end.
>
> No it hasn't! Have you tired of life?
>
> > There seems to only so much you can do with three chords and a chorus,
> or even an orchestra and a score.
>
> I just happen to be listening to Diane's show on WFMU right now and she's
> playing something by a band called Sex Church, a song called "209." I never
> heard of them, and probably never will again, but it's pretty good. Nothing
> spectacular but it's a long way from dead end material.
>
> And really, orchestra and score? Elliott Carter's still composing at age
> 101.
>
> Doug
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