[Dixielandjazz] A reinterpretation of an old John Cage work

[David Richoux]

There is this place for  modern composers that are trying for  
"musicality" in new composition. I happened to find their website a  
few months ago:
Check out: http://cooppress.hostrack.net/afccmJune2006.html

> Welcome to the Audience-friendly Contemporary Art Music Newsletter.  
> Audience-friendly contemporary art music consists of modern  
> compositions written by living composers that are based in  
> tonality, that contain a recognizable melodic idea, that use  
> dissonance with discretion, that exhibit craftmanship in keeping  
> with the art music tradition, and are acoustic rather than electronic.


Dave Richoux
On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:53 AM, DWSI at aol.com wrote:

> The most interesting question to me is, why do academics race to  
> embrace
> John Cage and all the other 20th century "composers" who focus on  
> making noise
> rather than music? Just to capture my share of modern fame, I'm  
> currently
> working on a rondo for leaf blowers that I'm certain will be  
> praised as "break
> through" by the intellectual set. I just can't imagine why anyone  
> would want to
> listen to it.
>
> Dan (backup piano) Spink