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Ian Pace
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« on: 20:41:29, 26-09-2007 »
David Wright's article in twentieth-century music on the London Sinfonietta ('The London Sinfonietta 1968-2004: A Perspective') seems to be available for all to download online here (or just Google the title). Wondered what anyone thought of it?
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #1 on: 20:42:55, 26-09-2007 »
I ain't seein' nothin'...  Undecided
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« Reply #2 on: 20:47:27, 26-09-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 20:42:55, 26-09-2007
I ain't seein' nothin'...  Undecided

Try this, then.
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« Reply #3 on: 20:55:30, 26-09-2007 »
It's quite weird: I think twentieth-century music must make available one issue at a time for free download, since at various points I seem to have managed to save everything to my laptop, but I've sometimes wanted to re-access things from work or somewhere else and found them no longer available.

I definitely have that Sinfonietta article saved, but I'm afraid I've never read it. Will try to have a look this weekend.
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« Reply #4 on: 21:00:58, 26-09-2007 »
Whilst the article does obviously have the Sinfonietta as its primary subject matter, it also has a fair amount to say more widely about changing attitudes to high art, subsidy, 'inclusiveness' and 'diversity', and commercialism, which paint a reasonable picture of how times have changed, even if some of the assumptions and constructions entailed are at the very least open to wider questioning.
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« Reply #5 on: 22:30:52, 26-09-2007 »
Certainly the thought that kept springing to mind for me was, well, you can't win can you? When Vyner pushed through ambitious but costly projects it was irresponsible, when they play it safe it's 'complacency and a loss of artistic nerve'...
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« Reply #6 on: 10:01:51, 27-09-2007 »
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Results 1 - 1 of 1 for "public subsidy of music".

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« Reply #7 on: 10:22:48, 27-09-2007 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 22:30:52, 26-09-2007
Certainly the thought that kept springing to mind for me was, well, you can't win can you? When Vyner pushed through ambitious but costly projects it was irresponsible, when they play it safe it's 'complacency and a loss of artistic nerve'...
Well, critics often sway with the wind, eager to align themselves with whatever the current fashionable opinion is. That said, it's not necessarily the same people who are making both of those charges?
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« Reply #8 on: 10:40:57, 27-09-2007 »
Well, when I first saw you drawing attention to this, my initial reaction was one of grave dismay, since I assumed the author to be one David C F Wright who has in the past published some exceedingly suspect stuff about Chopin, but a quick glance reveals him in fact to be David C H Wright and his wri(gh)ting style to be quite different from that of the F one (if you'll pardon the expression). So far, I've done no more than skim its surface and I'll need quite a while to peruse and digest it all, but it certainly looks interesting.

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« Reply #9 on: 19:50:48, 27-12-2007 »
Dr David C F Wright has managed to publish a great deal of almost unreadable prose, mostly on Musicweb International. Thank you for clarifying the identities of the two Wrights (one of whom is most definitely wrong...)
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