I don't think it requires 1% level privilege and have not heard of any evidence that people involved with new music composition are more politically conservative on average than the general population. (My anecdotal experience, since that seems to be what we're working with here, is on the contrary.)
Considering these composers come from a variety of different countries with diverse economic systems, it's not easy to generalize. Coming from America, most of the new music composers I am familiar with do come from privileged backgrounds. They are mostly cis white men. Most of them are baby boomers or older. Compared to other cis white baby boomer men, they tend to be more politically progressive. However, considering this type of music is highly connected to academia and avant-garde arts, which tend to be way more politically to the left than average, these nice liberal white men are conservative by comparison.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
In other words a reet bunch of melts, lol
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
As an American, I am not clear on what a "melt" is -- but you probably are otm
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
Cancel pianos.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
I haven't attended a concert by him since. Happy to keep things at a distance as I can't be arsed paying money to see good music played by bigots lol.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
lol all concerts have been cancelled for the past 6 months here and nothing is scheduled for the next 6 months at least so ...
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
XpI hope that isn't Howard Riley you are talking about, he's the only avant garde jazz pianist hero we have from Hudds!
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
Nope he isn't from the jazz scene.
Sarah - encountered his awful twitter about two years ago. Probably started going to his recitals ten years ago.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
wait who? i am confused. Rzewski?
― sarahell, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Luckily in the UK and I assume lots of other countries oiks still get access to free or at least heavily subsidised music lessons. Give our gov a bit more time tho
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
Haha so am I! sorry got our wires crossed (just checked whether Rzewski had twitter) xp
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
MEV invented twitter iirc
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 19:30 (three years ago) link
Free music lessons ended a long time ago and I think most local authorities no longer even subsidise them either - although as with most things in the UK it depends upon your postcode.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
fwiw, somewhat of a response on his Twitter today
Steve Reich’s response to last week’s article in The Guardian by Philip Clark: pic.twitter.com/5Kek546yxE— Steve Reich (@SteveReich) September 16, 2020
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
Was listening to Inside Music at the weekend on Radio 3 and Tai Murray played a selection from Drumming, which I thought was kinda interesting.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link